The open source movement has grown steadily and matured in recent years, and this
growth has been mirrored by a rise in open source related research. The objective of this …

Every year a different Italian city hosts a large and important hackmeeting. In 2007 hackers
were gathering in Pisa at the Rebeldia social centre: the centre's rooms were filled with …

This article discusses the Napster phenomenon and its cultural significance, traces some of
the threads of the current “copyright crisis,” and connects these cultural and legal dynamics …

Garage biology, biohacking, and citizen biology are all expressions that describe a new and
emerging movement of amateurs conducting life sciences outside of traditional professional …

The social life and long-term trajectories of online peer production communities are shaped
and animated in part by value tensions that arise when distributed, heterogeneous …

Earth science often deals with complex systems spanning multiple disciplines. These
systems are best described by integrated models built with contributions from specialists of …

The disaster management applications of geographical information systems and remote
sensing are examined relative to the disaster cycle, in pre-disaster, crisis and post-disaster …

A biography of Tor—a cultural and technological history of power, privacy, and global
politics at the internet's core. Tor, one of the most important and misunderstood technologies …

The purpose of this paper is to create a new model for describing conditions for profiting
from software innovations in the software industry. Proprietary software is threatened by the …

The use, development, and dissemination of open-source software (OSS) appears to be
more in line with the liberatory, collaborative, epistemological ideals of institutions of higher …