Handbook of Peer Production

Proud eds @mathieuoneil CPentzold @stoopt are here to announce that the Handbook of Peer Production, which explores the concepts, conditions, cases, conflicts and futures of the field of #peerproduction, is now published! 📩bit.ly/3gaaOZn #beyourownpeer #preprinthopp

🌇 Commoning the urban (new chapter pre-print by @nanastasop): The urban commons as a distinct domain of urban life - how the sociospatial characteristics of cities can be understood as an indicator of their health & vitality: bit.ly/3xoBqwK #preprinthopp #beyourownpeer

👾 Makers, by @dropsmops & @trox: This chapter provides a critical overview of the different cultures of making, their motivations, and sociotechnical infrastructures: bit.ly/2SrPIhB #preprinthopp #beyourownpeer #making

👾 Makers, by @dropsmops & @trox: This chapter provides a critical overview of the different cultures of making, their motivations, and sociotechnical infrastructures: bit.ly/2SrPIhB #preprinthopp #beyourownpeer #making

🌇 Commoning the urban (new chapter pre-print by @nanastasop): The urban commons as a distinct domain of urban life - how the sociospatial characteristics of cities can be understood as an indicator of their health & vitality: bit.ly/3xoBqwK #preprinthopp #beyourownpeer

🗺 Hacker Cartography: Participatory Mapmaking and Technological Power, by A. Fish: In this chapter, it is argued that amateur and collaborative mapmaking may fuel corporate development: bit.ly/3g04ZPi #preprinthopp #beyourownpeer #hacking #tech

💡 Be Your Own Peer! Principles and Policies for the Commons: This final chapter of the Handbook of Peer Production by @mathieuoneil @stoopt proposes practical suggestions as well as policy initiatives: bit.ly/3puzJv9 #preprinthopp #beyourownpeer #commons

📨 Grammar of Peer Production, by V. Kostakis @mbauwens: This chapter revisits Bauwens’ foundational 2005 article, refining operational concepts used to define peer projects and the institutional ecosystems that sustain them: bit.ly/3cqm9nk #preprinthopp #beyourownpeer

🎙What is peer production good for, in analytical terms, exactly? Should peer production become a field of study? A new chapter by @mathieuoneil @stoopt: bit.ly/3uWHNpG #preprinthopp #beyourownpeer #peerproduction #commons

📥 Political Economy of Peer Production, by @bjbirkin: This chapter explores the rise of peer production in capitalism and evaluates the extent to which peer production contradicts, or reinforces, these global economic trends: bit.ly/2RuE2df #preprinthopp #beyourownpeer

💡 Cultures of Peer Production, by M. Stevenson: This chapter explores how production is a form of cultural production, with structural similarities to existing cultural fields like art, literature, and journalism: bit.ly/3uYikvS #preprinthopp #beyourownpeer #culture

⏳ ‘Peer Production & State Theory: Envisioning a Cooperative Partner State’ How can the state enable peer production? This chapter by @AlexPazaitis @wjmd combines state theory + cooperative practice to imagine a Partner State: bit.ly/3x1ZZzt #preprinthopp #beyourownpeer

📦 Social Norms and Rules of Peer Production, by C. Pentzold: Self-organization and self-management depend on shared social norms and have generated sets of rules bit.ly/3prigDT #preprinthopp #beyourownpeer

🏬 Makerspaces and Peer Production: Spaces of Possibility, Tension, Post-Automation, or Liberation? This chapter by @codekat @smithadrianpaul explores how makerspaces can challenge prevailing sociotechnical regimes: bit.ly/3qC9xhN #preprinthopp #beyourownpeer #making

🗂 Gaps in Peer Design, by @franmusiani: This chapter of the Handbook of Peer Production reviews the reasons why a great networking and 'philosophical' principle often stumbles in its practical applications bit.ly/3g9gNxK #preprinthopp #beyourownpeer #design

📗 Feminist Peer Production, by @stoopt: This chapter examines feminist criticisms of peer production, and focuses on new practices grounded in feminist objectivity bit.ly/2T2wUoU #preprinthopp #beyourownpeer #feminism

📊 Virtue, Efficiency, and the Sharing Economy, by @copyculture: At the heart of key conceptualizations of peer production is a tension between virtue and pragmatism – this chapter explores these dynamics: bit.ly/2T92p0o #preprinthopp #beyourownpeer #politics

📙 Peer Production and Social Change, by @mathieuoneil & S. Broca: This chapter critically examines the claim that peer producers can oppose social harms and democratic failures in liberal democracies: bit.ly/2SdJVvG #preprinthopp #beyourownpeer #activism

📈 Openness and Licensing, by @melanieddr: This chapter reviews the evolution of legal and openness conditions to license peer production such as software, culture, science, and data as commons bit.ly/2T2sEpq #preprinthopp #beyourownpeer #tech

📘 User Motivations in Peer Production, by S. Spaeth & S. Niederhöfer: This chapter explores how motivations to contribute to open projects vary between individuals and projects, from intrinsic to extrinsic: bit.ly/3fUyLFk #preprinthopp #beyourownpeer

🧮 Blockchain, by @xpablov @__nate__: In this chapter, blockchain-based projects are explored that use an open yet secure distributed ledger that secures a robust workflow, authenticated by mass collaboration bit.ly/3x4fJSI #preprinthopp #blockchain #beyourownpeer