Academic and Other Research on P2P-Related Topics

New overview page based on the material indexed in our research section at http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Research

We've ported the first column i.e. the items catalogued from 'A' to 'B' so far.

PhD Theses

• American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics

PhD Dissertation: Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics. Danah Boyd. [1]

• Blogging Practices of Knowledge Workers

PhD Thesis: Between passion and work: blogging practices of knowledge workers. By Lila Efimova.

URL = http://www.telin.nl/index.cfm?ID=385&context=386&language=en

Ongoing

• Attraction of Activism from the Hacker Perspective

Working title for the PhD research project by Jarkko Moilanen. [2]

Master's Theses

• 3D Printing, the Arts and Crafts Movement and the Democratization of Art

MA Thesis: 3D Printing, the Arts and Crafts Movement and the Democratization of Art. Lassi Patokorpi. University of Tampere, School of Language, Translation and Literary Studies, English Philology, April 2014 [3]

• Access to Knowledge in a Network Society

A Master's Thesis on the WIPO development agenda, critiquing it from an open/free point of view and proposing a A2K Treaty. Author is Karsten Gerloff. Available online at http://nearlyfreespeech.org/downloads/a2k.netsoc.pdf

• Appropriate Commercial Custodianship of IP by Third Parties in Free Culture Age

MA Digital Publishing Research thesis by @a_lex_i_a

• Buddhism and Peer to Peer

Awakening from Capitalism. An exploration of merit economy as an alternative to a system of crisis. By Nicolás Mendoza. June 2011. This is a thesis in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of MA Global Media Communication in The School of Culture and Communication at The University of Melbourne. It was supervised by Dr Robert Hassan

• Building Trust in P2P Marketplaces

Thesis: Building trust in P2P marketplaces: an empirical analysis of trust systems for the sharing economy. Francesca Pick. [4]

Research-Based Articles

• Allocation of Collaborative Efforts in Open-Source Software

Article: Matthijs den Besten, Jean-Michel Dalle, and Fabrice Galia. "The Allocation of Collaborative Efforts in Open-Source Software" Information Economics and Policy 20 (2008): 316-322. [5]

• Assessing the Radical Democracy of Indymedia

Article: Assessing the Radical Democracy of Indymedia: Discursive, Technical, and Institutional Constructions. Victor W. Pickard. Critical Studies in Media Communication. Vol. 23, No. 1, March 2006, pp. 19-38 [6]

• Biological Evolution of Friendlyness as Possible Basis for Networked Economy

Article: Thomas Grund, Christian Waloszek, Dirk Helbing. How Natural Selection Can Create Both Self- and Other-Regarding Preferences, and Networked Minds. Scientific Reports, 2013; 3 DOI: 10.1038/srep01480

• Brokerage, Boundary Spanning, and Leadership in Open Innovation Communities

Article: Brokerage, Boundary Spanning, and Leadership in Open Innovation Communities. By Lee Fleming (Harvard Business School), David M. Waguespack (University of Maryland) [7]

• Case of a RepRap-Based, Lego-Built 3D Printing-Milling Machine

Full reference: Kostakis, V. & Papachristou, M. (2013). Commons-based peer production and digital fabrication: The case of a RepRap-based, Lego-built 3D printing-milling machine. Telematics & Informatics.

Miscellaneous

• A Large-Scale Study of MySpace: Observations and Implications of Online Social Networks: Here you’ll learn about spam, online deception and MySpace.

Webcast via http://videolectures.net/icwsm08_caverlee_lssm/