Category:Research
A compilation of academic and other research projects on the peer to peer aspects of the internet and society.
Danah Boyd recommends: Students, License your dissertation under Creative Commons!!
We support:
- Just One Giant Lab (JoGL) is the first research and innovation laboratory operating as a distributed, open and massive mobilisation platform for volunteer-based, IP-free task solving. [1]
- The research initiative: Journal of Peer Production
- Goteo, commons-oriented Crowdfunding platform for P2P research, from Platoniq
- The P2P facilitation and research method 'par excellence' is: Co-operative Inquiry
- Don't forget to check out our own P2P Lab, based in Ioannina, northern Greece and augmented with a global research network
What's Happening in the P2P Research Space
- check out the entries on Open Review and Open Peer Review
- Call for a Joint Research Group for Peer Production. By Jarkko Moilanen.
Some initiatives:
Review Commons
"Journal-independent portable review has the potential to accelerate and streamline the process of publishing. Authors can use their peer reviews to inform their journal selection and find the best fit for their work from the start. Because the reviews carry over to any affiliate journal, it will also reduce re-reviewing at multiple journals that currently imposes a large burden of duplicated activities across the scientific community (estimated at millions of hours of reviewer time each year)."
- Veronique Kiermer [2]
R2R_Research_Process_Protocol_Project page at the P2P Foundation Wiki
URL = http://p2pfoundation.net/The_R2R_Research_Process_Protocol_Project
Please bear in mind that it is indeed a “Request for Comments”, as we believe that the final form of this P2P research initiative should be itself the result of a P2P production process.
Jarkko Moilanen’s Call for Action
Towards a Joint research group for Peer Production
URL = http://surveys.peerproduction.net/2012/09/joint-research-group-for-peer-production/
As described by Jarkko, this call for action aims to:
1) Find all Peer-production researchers and collect them around the same 'table'.
2) Thus create more coherent approach to (including statistical) Peer-production research.
3) Form basis for joint research and tools to ensure future research.
James Carlson’s research project suggestion in relation to Space Federation
"The School Factory's Space Federation, a US-based network of p2p spaces, would appreciate direction on this. What methods for measuring and collecting data, even a survey for spaces to assess community capacity, equipment, footage, economics, could we support? We would happily share any results we can collect and our drafts of these concepts."
P2P Lab
The P2P Lab, a P2P Foundation and Ragnar Nurkse School spin-off, is a media lab interested in interdisciplinary research on free/open source technologies and practices.
Its mission is to:
- strive for integrative insights on the open technologies and the peer-to-peer practices.
- provide consultancy support to organisations and institutions regarding open technologies and relevant socio-economic trends.
- produce innovative, global techno-economic solutions to local problems.
- write, edit and publish articles, reports and books in the diverse range of topics we investigate.
- organise open events for reflection and action as well as to educate people about critical and creative tools for society-changing.
More: http://www.p2plab.gr/en/
Joe Corneli’s Free Technology Guild
URL = http://campus.ftacademy.org/wiki/index.php/Free_Technology_Guild
J Corneli: "Part of the relevance of our project is as a new way to secure funding for research and a new way of doing research (links from the wiki-research-l, for “Research into Wikimedia content and communities”, but what’s more interesting to us is a sort of “wiki way” of doing research).
In short, we have a lot to add but our growth is necessarily slow for now. Full disclosure: we too would like to be a “project incubator”, this time mainly for technical projects that can get some benefits from working together (example projects).”
The "Change Academic Research Forever" project.
URL = http://www.rockethub.com/projects/10270-change-academic-research-forever
Michael Lissack writes: "We are building a one click button to help researchers find one another based on what they read and search. Find an expert instantly. We want to enable researchers to find out "who should I talk to?" with merely a click of a mouse instead of a many hour slug through keywords and Google. We have the raw ingredients but we need to build the button. It will be based on the "what should I read?" button which already exists in the ISCE Library.
The ISCE Library currently is a collection of 1000+ full text on-line books with a unique search capability -- the user can upload a draft of their research project (say 2000 words) and the system will analyze the upload and then tell them what books in the library they should read for further insight, good quotes, additional material etc. The who else to talk to functionality is the missing link. Please help us make this dream a reality. We have built the bulk of the necessary technology (demo). We need your help to both fund the initial community of researchers and to build the social network search technology. We are crowdfunding through RocketHub (a service which operates much like Kickstarter)." http://www.rockethub.com/projects/10270-change-academic-research-forever
To try a demo of the service please go to http://isce-library.net login as user: [email protected] password is "Library"
The Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship
Listen to: Jon Wilkins on Organizing Independent Scholars with the Ronin Institute
Hack Your PhD
Célya Gruson-Daniel:
"Hack your Phd" launched in October 2012. Brings together a diverse community of doctoral researchers, designers and social entrepreneurs around the issues of Open Science and Open Knowledge. The goal here is to set up workshops (or "hackatons") to experiment with different initiatives of open Science while educating the public on this issue. The central idea is to use the collective intelligence of the community coming from different horizons using the new tools from science and open education. HackYourPhd wants to show that new ways of doing reseasrch exist, and can only benefit research itself as well as the relationship between science and society."
Alt-Academy
- Alt-Academy takes a grass-roots, bottom-up, publish-then-filter approach to community-building and networked scholarly communication.
Citations
"In traditional research on people, the roles of researcher and subject are mutually exclusive. The researcher only contributes the thinking that goes into the project, and the subjects only contribute the action to be studied. In co-operative inquiry these exclusive roles are replaced by a co-operative relationship of bilateral initiative and control, so that all those involved work together as co-researchers and as co-subjects. They both design, manage and draw conclusions from the inquiry, and undergo the experience and action that is being explored. This is not research on people, but research with people."
- John Heron on Cooperative Inquiry
Call for Papers
- Value and Currency in Peer Production: is there a place for currency -- and therefore exchange and (economic) value commons-oriented peer production? [3]
Key Resources
- the Free Open Source Research Communitycollects research papers on FLOSS, Free Software, Open Source Software
- Network Research Centers] for Social Network Analysis
- UIA encyclopedia of world problems and human potential
- Centre for Research on Networked Learning and Knowledge Building
- Digital Resistance research is monitored via the iRevolution blog
- The Center For Internet Research TCFIR is a transdisciplinary research cohort. All P2P members are invited.
Key Articles
- Mieke Bal: Let’s Abolish the Peer-Review System: "In this short commentary, Mieke Bal sets out her ten objections to the peer-review system in academic publishing."
Key Institutions / Movements
Some favourite potential informal research hubs and networks, compiled by Dante Monson:
Academic Internet Research Centers
- The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society [4]
- The Berkman Center for Internet & Society [5]
- The Centre for Internet and Society Bangalore [6]
- The MIT Center for Civic Media [7]
- The NEXA Center for Internet & Society at Politecnico di Torino [8]
- The Oxford Internet Institute [9]
- The Center for Technology & Society at the Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) Law School [10]
- The International Society of Blockchain Scholars [11]
P2P Action Research Groups
Research on Commons-Based Infrastructuring
- Infra-Demos: [12] "infra-demos is an anthropological project studying the crisis in the existing infrastructural models and the emergence of new participatory ones in Greece.
Resources By Country
Italy
- Marco Giustini recommends: If you're interested in researching about ancient commons' organizations, look for terms "comuna", "comunanza agraria" and "partecipanza agraria" in Italy. Really very interesting field of research! http://www.usicivici.unitn.it/
Key Statistics
- 0.08% of the world population has access to that 90% of research papers (via Eugenio Battaglia)
Key Tools
- The Digital Research Tools (DiRT) collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively: software to help you manage citations, author a multimedia work, or analyze texts, etc...
- Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, open source easy-to-use software tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. It works as an add on to the free open source Firefox web-browser. Main webpage: http://www.zotero.org/
Endorsements
- The P2P Foundation is part of 3D Living Innovation consortium, a Living Lab research project created on the initiative of La Fabrique du Futur
Pages in category "Research"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 1,528 total.
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- Abs-Tract Organization
- Academic and Other Research on P2P-Related Topics
- Academic and Scientific Research on Monetary Diversity and Complementary Currencies
- Academic Torrents
- Accelerating Transformations to Sustainable Food Systems
- Access to Knowledge in a Network Society
- Accounting Technologies for Anti-Rival Coordination and Allocation
- Adam Arvidsson
- Addressing Sustainability in Research on Distributed Production
- Adrian Chan
- Affect Theory
- Affective Commons
- Affective Commons of Coworking
- Affective Dimensions of Infrastructuring the Commons
- Aftermath Network
- Agatino Rizzo
- Agreement-Based Governance
- AI Objectives Institute
- Alan Tuckman
- Alberto Corsin Jimenez
- Alekos Pantazis
- Alex Grech
- Alex Pazaitis
- Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
- Algorithm Observatory
- Algorithmic Governance
- Algorithmic Sovereignty
- Allocation of Collaborative Efforts in Open-Source Software
- Alt-Academy
- Alternative Academia
- Alternative Futures of Globalisation
- Alternative Internets
- Alternative Research and Scholarship Metrics
- American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics
- Amitology
- Anacyclosis Institute
- Analysis of Open Collaboration between Experience Design and Poietic Practice
- Analysis of Social Inclusion in Short Chain Initiatives in Ghent
- Analysis of the Agricultural Cooperative Movement in Greece
- Andrew Paterson
- Angela Daly
- Anna Greenspan
- Anthropological Analysis of Civic Experimentation with Free Culture in the City
- Anthropology of Technology
- Anti-Utilitarian Movement in the Social Sciences
- Anticipated Environmental Sustainability of Personal Fabrication
- Antikykhera Planetary Intelligence
- Antikythera
- Antonella Radicchi
- Antonio Lafuente
- Anurag Acharya
- Anurag Acharya on Google Scholar
- Appropriate Commercial Custodianship of IP by Third Parties in Free Culture Age
- Aram Sinnreich
- Archdisciplinary Research Center
- Archeodatalogy
- Archon Fung
- Archtheory
- Arena
- Armin Beverungen
- Armin Medosch
- Arts and the Commons
- Asli Telli Aydemir
- Assessing the Radical Democracy of Indymedia
- Association of Peer to Peer Researchers
- AST Group
- At the Turning Point of the Current Techno-Economic Paradigm
- Athina Karatzogianni
- Attraction of Activism from the Hacker Perspective
- AUEB Network Economics and Services Group
- Augmented Social Cognition
- Augmentology
- Aurélie Ghalim
- Authorea
- Authority in Peer Production
- Authorship Through Networks
- Automenta
- Autonomous Research
- Autonomous Research Lab of Crete
- Autonomy Institute
- Autonomy of Migration and Mobile Commons
B
- Backfeed, the Blockchain, and Value Systems in the Sharing Economy
- BarCola
- Basic Features of an Alternative Cosmo-Local Economic Order
- Basic Income Studies
- Bastard Culture
- Bath Open INstrumentation Group
- Be Another Lab
- Beatriz Martins
- Belonging Project
- Ben Armstrong
- Benevolent Sexism
- Benjamin Knight
- Best of Cooperation Lectures
- Beyond Exit and Affect in Online Communities
- Beyond the Commons
- Beyond the PDF
- Beyond the PDF 2
- Beyond the Technological Revolution
- Bibliography Commons
- Bibliography of Hunter-Gatherers
- Bibliography on Land Commons for European Food Production
- Bibliography on Localizing and Distributing Production
- Bibliography on P2P Intersubjectivity
- Big Data from the South
- Bio and Hardware Hacking
- Biofaction
- Biohistory
- Biological Evolution of Friendlyness as Possible Basis for Networked Economy
- Biomedical Research Commons
- Biophobia in Social Theory
- Blaqswan's Collective
- Blau Exchange
- Block Chain Access Project
- Blockchain and Society Policy Research Lab
- Blockchain Government - Europe
- Blockchain Technology and Polycentric Governance
- Blockchaingov
- BlockchainGov
- Blogging Practices of Knowledge Workers
- Bonni Rambatan
- Born-Digital Electronic Scholarship
- Bottom-Up Broadband Project
- BPR3
- Bricolage
- Brokerage, Boundary Spanning, and Leadership in Open Innovation Communities
- Bruno Carballa
- Buddhism and Peer to Peer
- Building Trust in P2P Marketplaces
- Burak Arikan
- Business Models of European Service Platforms
- Businesses for the Commons Project
C
- Calculating the Value of the Commons
- Call for a Joint Research Group for Peer Production
- Camille Meyer
- Can Digital Commons Escape from Capital
- Can Distributed Ledger Technology Digitally Unite Commoners
- Can Reducing Income Inequality Decouple Economic Growth from CO 2 Emissions
- Canadian Research Alliance for Community Innovation and Networking
- Cancel Culture on Campus
- Carolina Botero
- Casa Colorida
- Case of a RepRap-Based, Lego-Built 3D Printing-Milling Machine
- Case studies of Co-creative Labour
- Case Study on Strategic Tagging
- CASTAC
- Categorization of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
- Causal Layered Analysis
- Celebrating Commons Scholarship
- Celebrity, Publicity, and Self-Branding in Web 2.0
- Center for Communal Studies
- Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education
- Center for Complex Network Research Lab
- Center for Creating Commons Value and Values
- Center for Critical Computational Studies
- Center for Data Innovation
- Center for Deliberative Democracy
- Center for Global Nonkilling
- Center For Internet Research
- Center for Planetary Culture
- Center for the Story of the Universe
- Center for the Study of Digital Life
- Center for Transition Sciences
- Center Leo Aposte
- Centre for Civil Society
- Centre for Collective Intelligence Design
- Centre for Commons Organising, Values Equalities and Resilience
- Centre for Postdigital Cultures
- Centre for the Analysis of Social Media
- CERN Bibliography 2019
- Change Academic Research Forever
- Changing Protest and Media Cultures
- Charlotte Hess on the Need for a Commons Research Agenda
- Chris Giotitsas
- Christian Fuchs
- Christian Pentzold
- Christina Priavolou
- Christopher Kelty
- Chronological Analysis of the Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Words in News Media Discourse
- CICOLAB
- Cindy Kohtala
- Circle Economy
- Circular Cities Hub
- Circular City Open Labs
- Circular Makespaces in Redistributed Manufacturing
- Citadel on the Move
- Cities Collaborating for the Circular Economy
- Citizen Collectives in the Flanders
- Citizen Cyberscience Centre
- Citizen Laboratories
- Citizens Lab
- Civic and Political Significance of Online Participatory Cultures by Youth
- Civic eState Network
- Civil Innovation Lab
- Civil Society in Sustainability Transitions of Food Systems
- Civilization Research Initiative