Evangelia Berdou

Organization in Open Source Communities

At the Crossroads of the Gift and Market Economies

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book contributes new insights into the organization of free/open source (F/OS) software communities by examining the links between learning, division of labour and commercialization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 227g
• ISBN-13: 9781138977686
• ISBN-10: 1138977683
• Artikelnr.: 45161355

Autorenporträt

Evangelia Berdou is Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. She completed her Ph.D in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2007. Her thesis was awarded LSE's Robert McKenzie prize. Her Ph.D research was sponsored by the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY) and focused on dynamics of commercialization and peripheral participation (integration of new developers and participation of non-programmers) in mature, community-led Free/Open Source software communities. From 2004-2007 she worked as a research assistant in the DBE (Digital Business Ecosystem) and OPAALS (Open Philosophies for Associative Autopoietic Digital Ecosystems) European funded projects.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Technologies of Communities and Peer Production:
Disentagling Power Relations in Fl/Oss Development 3. Fl/Oss as an Object
of Research: Methodological and Disciplinary Issues 4. Commercial
Involvement and Fl/Oss 5. The Community, the Firm and the Two Economies 6.
Learning and the Division of Labour in Fl/Oss 7. The Story So Far:
Technologies of Communities and Peer Production 8. Conclusions