Peer Production: Development from the Edges and from the Crowd
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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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