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Title: Peer production of Open Hardware: Unfinished artifacts and architectures in the hackerspaces
Author: Dunajcsik, Peter
Director: Aibar, Eduard  
Abstract: The dissertation adopts the theoretical framework of peer production to investigate the phenomena of open collaboration in hacker clubs through two case studies of small scale electronic artefacts. A critique of current theories of peer production is developed from a Science and Technology Studies point of view, arguing for the primacy of social constructivism over technological determinist narratives about the role of ICTs in late capitalism in general and hacker culture in particular. Properties of disruptive novelty and spontaneous emergence routinely attributed to ICTs – and by extension to the peer production practices of hackers – are approached sceptically with a historically informed ethnographic method that concentrates on continuities and contexts.
Keywords: peer production
hacker culture
open-source hardware
free software
hackerspace
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
Version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Issue Date: 16-Sep-2015
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/  
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