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* [http://web.media.mit.edu/~cebrian/p78-tang.pdf John Tang et al, Reflecting on the DARPA Red Balloon Challenge (''Communications of the ACM'')] | * [http://web.media.mit.edu/~cebrian/p78-tang.pdf John Tang et al, Reflecting on the DARPA Red Balloon Challenge (''Communications of the ACM'')] | ||
; Crowd intelligence | ; Crowd intelligence | ||
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/features/wisdomofcrowds/excerpt.html James Surowiecki, ''The Wisdom of Crowds''] (read excerpt) | * [http://www.randomhouse.com/features/wisdomofcrowds/excerpt.html James Surowiecki, ''The Wisdom of Crowds''] (read excerpt) | ||
* [http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/11/30/cass-sunsteins-infotopia/ Ethan Zuckerman, Review of Cass Sunstein’s “Infotopia”] | * [http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/11/30/cass-sunsteins-infotopia/ Ethan Zuckerman, Review of Cass Sunstein’s “Infotopia”] | ||
* [http://www.roughtype.com/?p=1667 Nicholas Carr, Visions of Barbie] | |||
== Optional Readings == | == Optional Readings == | ||
Revision as of 13:55, 16 November 2013
March 25
Beyond merely providing a forum for political activism, scholars are increasingly aware of the benefits the Internet provides as a mode of production. How can the Internet help us make things together? How much hierarchy and control is needed to produce? How good is the material that peer production creates? And finally, what are the risks to producers (and society) inherent to peer production?
Assignments
As a reminder, Assignment 3 is due before class today. You can submit that assignment here.
Readings
- Development from the edges
- Eric Von Hippel, Democratizing Innovation (Chapter 1, focus on pages 1-3 and 13-15, skim rest)
- Development as a crowd
- Yochai Benkler, News, Information and the Wealth of Networks (video, watch from 8:32 to 26:07)
- if you’re not familiar, you may want to spend a little time looking at Wikipedia’s entry on Seti@home.
- Crowd intelligence
- James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds (read excerpt)
Optional Readings
- Jonathan Zittrain, Minds for Sale (video, watch all)
Videos Watched in Class
Links
Class Discussion
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