Cyberchiefs

Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

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Beskrivning

People are inventing new ways of working together on the internet. Decentralised production thrives on blogs, wikis and free software projects. Cyberchiefs focuses on the regulations of these working relationships. It examines the transformation of leadership and expertise in online networks, and the emergence of innovative forms of participatory politics.What are the costs and benefits of alternatives to hierarchical organisation? Using case studies of online projects or 'tribes' such as the radical Primitivism archive, Daily Kos, the Debian free software project and Wikipedia, this book shows that leaders must support maximum autonomy for participants, and looks at the tensions generated by this distribution of authority.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-03-20
Mått:135 x 215 x 15 mm
Vikt:316 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Pluto Press
ISBN:9780745327969

Utforska kategorier

Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Anarkism inom Samhälle och politik
Digital livsstil och datorspel inom Data och IT

Mer om författaren

Mathieu O'Neil is Adjunct Research Fellow at the Australian National University in the Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, and Principal Researcher at Australia's Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. He has contributed articles to Le Monde Diplomatique and is the author of Cyberchiefs (Pluto, 2009).

Recensioner i media

'Offers an important and relevant account of the innovations in forms of authority expressed by the social dynamics of Internet group formations'

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments IntroductionPART I1. The Autonomy Imperative2. The Distribution of Charisma3. The Tyranny of Structure4. The Grammar of JusticePART II5. The Last Online Tribe: primitivism.com6. The Primary War: dailykos.com7. The Imperfect Committee: debian.org8. The Great Sock Hunt: wikipedia.org9. Online Tribal BureaucracyNotesIndex