Academic and Other Research on P2P-Related Topics

PhD Theses

• American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics

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

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

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. [4]

• 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 [5]

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/