Cyberchiefs

Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes

Mathieu O’Neil (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2009
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-2796-9 (ISBN)

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Can there be autonomy on the internet?

People are inventing new ways of working together on the internet. Decentralised production thrives on blogs, wikis and free software projects. Cyberchiefs focuses on the regulations of these working relationships. It examines the transformation of leadership and expertise in online networks, and the emergence of innovative forms of participatory politics.

What are the costs and benefits of alternatives to hierarchical organisation? Using case studies of online projects or 'tribes' such as the radical Primitivism archive, Daily Kos, the Debian free software project and Wikipedia, this book shows that leaders must support maximum autonomy for participants, and looks at the tensions generated by this distribution of authority.

Mathieu O'Neil is Adjunct Research Fellow at the Australian National University in the Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, and Principal Researcher at Australia's Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. He has contributed articles to Le Monde Diplomatique and is the author of Cyberchiefs (Pluto, 2009).

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I

1. The Autonomy Imperative

2. The Distribution of Charisma

3. The Tyranny of Structure

4. The Grammar of Justice

PART II

5. The Last Online Tribe: primitivism.com

6. The Primary War: dailykos.com

7. The Imperfect Committee: debian.org

8. The Great Sock Hunt: wikipedia.org

9. Online Tribal Bureaucracy

Notes

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.3.2009
Zusatzinfo	1 b&w figure
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	135 x 215 mm
Gewicht	316 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Wirtschaftsinformatik
ISBN-10	0-7453-2796-6 / 0745327966
ISBN-13	978-0-7453-2796-9 / 9780745327969
Zustand	Neuware