Books
This is a place to post reviews and bibliographies.
1. Peer to Peer Book Reviews
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2. Short book notes
- The Success of Open Source. Steve Weber. Harvard University Press, 2005
- We the Media: Grassroots Journalism By the People For the People by Dan Gillmor 299pp, O'Reilly
Book on citizen-based journalism
3. Bibliography of the Manuscript
4. Peer to Peer Bibliography
In the process of writing the book 'P2P and Human Evolution', I have compiled a rather extensive bibliography which I will eventually post here. In the mean time, here is the table of contents. If you want access to it, please send an email to [email protected]
Table of Contents
- 2.5 The Emergence of Peer to Peer and Open Source Alternatives
1. PEER TO PEER AS A TECHNOLOGY 106
2. THE FREE SOFTWARE MOVEMENT 107
3. OPEN SOURCE AS A MODE OF PRODUCTION AND P2P LEGAL INFRASTRUCTURE 110 THE P2P Legal Infrastructure 112 4. P2P FILE DISTRIBUTION AND THE CRISIS IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERY 113
5. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ALTERNATIVES 116
Understanding IP 116
6. SOCIAL NETWORKING 117
7. P2P MEDIA 118
Citizen Journalism 118
Weblogs 118
8. CREATING AND PROTECTING A CREATIVE COMMONS 119
The Information Commons 119
Related Common Informational Property Issues 120
The Physical Commons 121
9. COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE 121
9.A. Collective Intelligence Theory 121
9.B. Collective Intelliigence Practices 124
10. PEER TO PEER ECONOMICS 126
User-Centric Innovation and Capitalism 126
Bottom of the Pyradid Economic Development 126
Cooperative Economics 126
Social Capital 127
Monetary Reform / Alternative Money Systems 127
Basic Income and Universal Wage Proposals 128
Beyond Salaried Work 129
11. PARTICIPATORY POLITICS 129
11. DIALOGUE BETWEEN CULTURES AND CIVILIZATIONS 130
- 2.6 The Historical and Philosophical Context to Peer to Peer
1. THE HISTORY OF COOPERATION 131
1.A. Generalities 131
Contemporary Cooperation 131
The History of Cooperation 132
Cooperation and Technology 133
Cooperation in the Contemporary Corporation 133
1.B. The Gift Economy 133
Medieval Expressions of the Gift Economy 136
Contemporary Expressions of the Gift Economy 136
1.C. Technology and cooperation (groupware, communities of practice) 136
2. PROTECTING THE PHYSICAL COMMONS 137
3. THE HISTORY AND EVOLUTION OF COMMUNITY 140
3.A. Traditional Community – Community in History 141
3.B. (Post)Modern Community 141
3.C. Debating Community 141
3.D. Special Topics 142
4. GROUP DYNAMICS 144
5. PARTICIPATIVE TECHNIQUES 146
Communities of Practice 147
Dialogue / Conversation 147
Participatory Democracy 148
Participatory Design 148
Working and Learning 148
Politics 149
Spirituality (organizing) 149
6. THE HISTORY AND EVOLUTION OF EQUALITY 150
7. POWER, HIERARCHY, AUTHORITY 155
8. FREEDOM 156
9. P2P IN THE SPIRITUAL FIELD 157
Participative epistemologies 157
Participation as an organizational technique 158
Critiques of Spiritual Authoritarianism 158
10. PARTICIPATION IN THE SCIENTIFIC FIELD 159