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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/ |
Appears in Collections: | Tesis doctorals |
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