Anne Holohan

Community, Competition and Citizen Science

Voluntary Distributed Computing in a Globalized World. Anne Holohan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on face-to-face and online ethnographic, survey and interview data with participants in distributed computing projects around the world, this book sheds light on the organizational and social structures of voluntary distributed computing projects, communities and teams, with close attention to questions of motivation in projects that offer little or no traditional forms of reward, either financially or in terms of participants' careers. With its focus on non-market, non-hierarchical cooperation, this book is a case study of networked individuals around the world who are part of a new social production of information.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781409452980
• ISBN-10: 1409452980
• Artikelnr.: 41253704

Autorenporträt

Anne Holohan is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and author of Networks of Democracy: Lessons from Kosovo for Afghanistan, Iraq and Beyond and Working Lives: The Irish in Britain.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Introduction
The projects
Breaking down the walls: voluntary distributed computing and citizen science
Communities in voluntary distributed computing
Competition and co-opetition: the race to discover and win
Moderators, super-moderators, Beta testers and translators
Principal investigators and the scientific team
Volunteers
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.