Dissertation Research/Case Study Alternatives

Alternate possible case studies There are several alternative contexts I could research: =Democratic deficit= (Small town in Massacusetts. Could it be compared with a suburb of Bangalore?)

=Open source movements= (See list below – specifically not software focused) All the cases below fall into the third category and have common properties:


 * The solutions are or can be enabled by the net and open communication tools.
 * They can or do utilize a free or open source model. By this I mean the approach permits inputs from all and generates ownerlessness digital property.
 * They include an aspect of internal community politics.
 * They leverage the now existing but mostly latent performativity of the network as an organization.

Alternate open source type projects
(Alternate source of communities to study: Networks on Ning, blogosphere for blog centric networks (e.g. Open Left), http://Wikia.com for wiki-centric networks)

=Crisis response= (IT security issue, financial panic, weather emergency, health epidemic)