Reading list

From WikiDotMako

Particular Papers

Sorted basically by the order in which I've added them to this list.

Thrift, Nigel. 2006. “Re-inventing invention: new tendencies in capitalist commodification..” Economy & Society 35:279-306.  

Benkler, Yochai. 1998. “Overcoming Agoraphobia: Building the Commons of the Digitally Networked Environment.” Harvar Jouranl of Law and Technology 11:287.  

King, Brayden G., and Sarah A. Soule. 2007. “Social Movements as Extra-institutional Entrepreneurs: The Effect of Protests on Stock Price Returns..” Administrative Science Quarterly 52:413-442.  

King, Marissa D, and Heather A Haveman. 2008. “Antislavery in America: The Press, the Pulpit, and the Rise of Antislavery Societies.” Administrative Science Quarterly 52:492-528.  

Rand, David G et al. 2009. “Dynamic remodeling of in-group bias during the 2008 presidential election.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences -.  

Stinchcombe, A. L. 1975. “A structural analysis of sociology.” American Sociologist 19:57-64.  

Jonsson, Jan O., David B. Grusky, Matthew Di Carlo, Reinhard Pollak, and Mary C. Brinton. 2009. “Microclass Mobility: Social Reproduction in Four Countries.” American Journal of Sociology 114:977-1036.  

Kittur, Aniket, Bongwon Suh, and Ed H. Chi. 2008. “Can you ever trust a wiki?: impacting perceived trustworthiness in wikipedia.” Pp. 477-480 in Proceedings of the ACM 2008 conference on Computer supported cooperative work. San Diego, CA, USA: ACM <a href="http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1460563.1460639">http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1460563.1460639</a> (Accessed April 18, 2009).

Pirolli, Peter, Evelin Wollny, and Bongwon Suh. 2009. “So you know you're getting the best possible information: a tool that increases Wikipedia credibility.” Pp. 1505-1508 in Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems. Boston, MA, USA: ACM <a href="http://portal.acm.org.libproxy.mit.edu/citation.cfm?doid=1518701.1518929">http://portal.acm.org.libproxy.mit.edu/citation.cfm?doid=1518701.1518929</a> (Accessed April 18, 2009).

Essay on Fast Capitalism [1]

Cohen, Wesley Marc, Stephen A Merrill, and National Research Council (U.S.) Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-Based Economy. 2003. Patents in the knowledge-based economy. Washington D.C.: National Academies Press.  

Heilbroner, Robert L. 1967. “Do Machines Make History?.” Technology and Culture 8:335-345.  

Chapter on Leadership in Debian from Cyberchiefs [2]

Shi, Xiaolin, Lada A. Adamic, Belle L. Tseng, and Gavin S. Clarkson. 2009. “The Impact of Boundary Spanning Scholarly Publications and Patents.” PLoS ONE 4:e6547.

The Determinants of Music Piracy in a Sample of College Students (SSRN)

Collective Forgetting And The Symbolic Power Of Oneness: The Strange Apotheosis Of Rosa Parks by Barry Schwartz

Beyond Pleasure and Pain by E.T. Higgins

What's Mine is Mine

Sexual Harassment Under Social Identity Threat: The Computer Harassment Paradigm

Blood Donations and Incentives: Evidence from a Field Experiment by Lorenz Goette and Alois Stutzer

Determinants of the Choice of Open Source Software License by Ravi Sen A1, Chandrasekar Subramaniam A2, Matthew L. Nelson. "The results from our empirical study of OSS developers reveal that the intrinsic motivation of challenge (problem solving) is associated with the developers' preference for licenses with moderate restrictions, while the extrinsic motivation of status (through peer recognition) is associated with developers' preference for licenses with least restrictions."

Rough directions and ideas

  • The 2009 CHI session on Wikipedia
  • Everett Rogers on early adopters

Unprocessed

  • Insurgent Identities by Roger V. (van Blerkom) Gould
  • Top Soc Citations [3]
  • The Social Psychological Effects of Feedback on the Production of Internet Information Pools
  • Propogation of innovation in network groups [4]