Dissertation Research/Additional Readings

"E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-first Century: The 2006 Johan Skytte Prize Lecture." Scandinavian Political Studies 30.2 (June 2007): 137-174.

Theda Skocpol, Department of Government, Harvard University

Bringing the State Back In: Retrospect and Prospect The 2007 Johan Skytte Prize Lecture

Disconnection and Reorganization: The Transformation of Civic Life in Late-Twentieth-Century America, Theda Skocpol, Rachael V. Cobb and Casey Andrew Klofstad

Network Society

Yochai Benkler, Harvard Law School

The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (Yale Press 2006).

Commons-Based Peer Production and Virtue, 14(4) J. Political Philosophy 394-419 (2006); with Helen Nissenbaum

"Sharing Nicely": On shareable goods and the emergence of sharing as a modality of economic production, 114 Yale L. J. 273 (2004)Commons-Based Strategies and the Problems of Patents, 305 Science 1110 (Aug. 20, 2004)[1]Coase's Penguin,or Linux and the Nature of the Firm, 112 Yale Law Journal 369 (2002)

Freedom in the Commons, Towards a Political Economy of Information, 52 Duke L.J. 1245 (2003) (Frey Lecture audio)

Common Wisdom: Peer Production of Educational Materials, Center for Open and Sustainable Learning, 2005, or you can get a print version here.

The Political Economy of Commons, Upgrade, Vol. IV., No.3 June 2003

The Battle Over the Institutional Ecosystem in the Digital Environment, 44 Communications of the ACM No.2 84 (2001)

Property, Commons, and the First Amendment: Towards a Core Common Infrastructure (White Paper for the Brennan Center for Justice) (March, 2001)

From Consumers to Users: Shifting the Deeper Structures of Regulation Towards Sustainable Commons and User Access, 52 Fed. Comm. L.J. 561 (2000)

Free as the Air to Common Use: First Amendment Constraints on Enclosure of the Public Domain, 74 N.Y.U. Law Review 354 (1999)

Overcoming Agoraphobia: Building the Commons of the Digitally Networked Environment, 11 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology 287 (1998)

The Commons As A Neglected Factor of Information Policy (working draft presented at Telecommunications Policy Research Conference 9/98)

Addressing Global Health Inequities: An Open Licensing Approach for University Innovations, with Amy Kapczynski, Samantha Chaifetz, and Zachary Katz, 20 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 1031 (2005).Intellectual Property and the Organization of Information Production, 22 Int'l Rev. of L. & Ec. 81 (2002). (Working Draft 10/99, available for reference to quotations to the working paper, 10/99)

An Unhurried View of Private Ordering in Information Transactions, 53 Vanderbilt Law Rev. 2063 (2000) (with better renditions of Figures 1 and 2)

Through the Looking Glass: Alice and Constitutional Foundations of the Public Domain, 66 J. Law & Contemp. Probs. 173 (Winter/Sring 2003)Siren Songs and Amish Children: Autonomy, Information, and Law, 76 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 23 (2001)

A Speakers Corner Under the Sun, in The Commodification of Information: Political, Social, and Cultural Ramifications (N. Elkin-Koren, N. Netanel, eds.) (Kluwer, 2002).

A Political Economy of the Public Domain: Markets in Information Goods vs. The Marketplace of Ideas, in Expanding the Boundaries of Intellectual Property: Innovation Policy for the Knowledge Society (Rochelle Dreyfuss, Diane L Zimmerman, and Harry First, eds. 2001)

Free Markets vs. Free Speech: A Resilient Red Lion and it Critics, Reviewing Rationales and Rationalizations, Regulating the Electronic Media (Robert Corn-Revere, ed.) 8 Int'l J. L. & Information Tech. 214 (2000)

Manuel Castells

The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture (three volumes):

Volume 1: The Rise of the Network Society, Blackwell Publishers (Oxford, and Malden, MA), 1996.

Volume 2: The Power of Identity, Blackwell Publishers (Oxford, and Malden, MA), 1997.

Volume 3: End of Millennium, Blackwell Publishers (Oxford, and Malden, MA), 1998.

Jonathan Zittrain, Harvard Law School

Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering (Ronald Deibert, John G. Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski & Jonathan Zittrain eds., MIT Press 2008).

The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop It (Yale University Press & Penguin UK 2008).

"A History of Online Gatekeeping," 19 Harvard Journal of Law and Technology 253 (2006).

"The Generative Internet," 119 Harvard Law Review 1975 (2006).

"Normative Principles for the Evaluation of Free and Proprietary Software," 71, No. 1 University of Chicago Law Review (2004).

"Internet Points of Control," 44 Boston College Law Review 653 (2003).

"What the Publisher Can Teach the Patient: Intellectual Property and Privacy in an Era of Trusted Privication," 52 Stanford Law Review 1201 (2000).

Communications

Bruce Bimber, USC

The Transformation of Collective Life, with co-authors Andrew Flanagin and Cynthia Stohl, with funding from the National Science Foundation.

Information and American Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2003),

The Internet and Political Transformation: Populism, Community, and Accelerated Pluralism(*)

Andrew Flanigan, UCSB

Flanagin, A. J., Pearce, K., & Bondad-Brown, B. (in press). The destructive potential of electronic communication technologies in organizations. In P. Lutgen-Sandvik & B. Davenport-Sypher (Eds.), The destructive side of organizational communication: Processes, consequences, and constructive ways of organizing. Mahwah, NJ: Routledge/LEA.

Metzger, M. J., Flanagin, A. J., & Medders, R. (in press). Social and heuristic approaches to credibility evaluation online. Journal of Communication.

Bimber, B., Stohl, C., & Flanagin, A. J. (2008). Technological change and the shifting nature of political organization. In A. Chadwick & P. N. Howard (Eds.), Handbook of Internet and Politics (pp. 72-85). New York: Routledge.

Flanagin, A. J., & Metzger, M. J. (2008). The credibility of volunteered geographic information. GeoJournal, 72, 137-148.

M. J. Metzger & A. J. Flanagin (Eds.), Digital media, youth, and credibility Cambridge: MIT Press.

Flanagin, A. J. (2007). Commercial markets as communication markets: Uncertainty reduction through mediated information exchange in online auctions. New Media & Society, 9(3), 401-423.

Flanagin, A. J., & Metzger, M. J. (2007). The role of site features, user attributes, and information verification behaviors on the perceived credibility of web-based information. New Media & Society, 9(2), 319-342.

Flanagin, A. J., Stohl, C., & Bimber, B. (2006). Modeling the structure of collective action. Communication Monographs, 73, 29-54.

Yao, Z. M., & Flanagin, A. J. (2006). A self-awareness approach to computer-mediated communication. Computers in Human Behavior, 22, 518-544.

Bimber, B., Flanagin, A. J., & Stohl, C. (2005). Reconceptualizing collective action in the contemporary media environment. Communication Theory, 15, 365-388.

Flanagin, A. J. (2005). IM online: Instant messaging use among college students. Communication Research Reports, 22, 175-187.

Palomares, N., & Flanagin, A. J. (2005). The potential of electronic communication and information technologies as research tools: Promise and perils for the future of communication research. In P. Kalbfleisch (Ed.), Communication Yearbook 29 (pp. 147-185). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Flanagin, A. J. (2004). The challenges of radical change: The case of technological implementation in a governmental organization. In J. Keyton & P. Shockley-Zalabak (Eds.), Case studies for organizational communication: Understanding communication processes (pp. 120-127). Los Angeles: Roxbury Publishing.

Flanagin, A. J., Park, H. S., & Seibold, D. R. (2004). Group performance and collaborative technology: A longitudinal and multilevel analysis of information quality, contribution equity, and members' satisfaction in computer-mediated groups. Communication Monographs, 71, 352-372.

Flanagin, A. J., & Waldeck, J. H. (2004). Technology use and organizational newcomer socialization. The Journal of Business Communication, 41, 137-165.

Fulk, J., Heino, R., Flanagin, A. J., Monge, P., & Bar, F. (2004). A test of the individual action model for organizational information commons. Organization Science, 15, 569-585.

Lemus, D., Seibold, D. R., Flanagin, A. J., & Metzger, M. J. (2004). Argument and decision making in computer-mediated groups. Journal of Communication, 54, 302-320.

Waldeck, J. H., Seibold, D. R., & Flanagin, A. J. (2004). Organizational assimilation and communication technology use. Communication Monographs, 71, 161-183.

Metzger, M. J., Flanagin, A. J., Eyal, K., Lemus, D. R., & McCann, R. (2003). Credibility in the 21st century: Integrating perspectives on source, message, and media credibility in the contemporary media environment. In P. Kalbfleisch (Ed.), Communication Yearbook 27, (pp. 293-335). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Metzger, M. J., Flanagin, A. J., & Zwarun, L. (2003). College student Web use, perceptions of information credibility, and verification behavior. Computers & Education, 41, 271-290.

O'Sullivan, P. B., & Flanagin, A. J. (2003). Reconceptualizing "flaming" and other problematic messages. New Media & Society, 5, 69-94.

Flanagin, A. J. (2002). The elusive benefits of the technological support of knowledge management. Management Communication Quarterly, 16, 242-248.

Flanagin, A. J., Tiyaamornwong, V., O'Connor, J., & Seibold, D. R. (2002). Computer-mediated group work: The interaction of member sex and anonymity. Communication Research, 29, 66-93.

Metzger, M. J., & Flanagin, A. J. (2002). Audience orientations toward new media. Communication Research Reports, 19, 338-351.

Flanagin, A. J., & Metzger, M. J. (2001). Internet use in the contemporary media environment. Human Communication Research, 27, 153-181.

Flanagin, A. J., Monge, P. R., & Fulk, J. (2001). The value of formative investment in organizational federations. Human Communication Research, 27, 69-93.

Flanagin, A. J. (2000). Social pressures on organizational website adoption. Human Communication Research, 26, 618-646.

Flanagin, A. J., Farinola, W. J. M., & Metzger, M. J. (2000). The technical code of the Internet / World Wide Web. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 17, 409-428.

Flanagin, A. J., & Metzger, M. J. (2000). Perceptions of Internet information credibility. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 77, 515-540.

Seibold, D. R., & Flanagin, A. J. (2000). Potential "sites" for building common ground across metatheoretical perspectives on organizational communication. In S. R. Corman & M. S. Poole (Eds.), Perspectives on organizational communication: Finding common ground (pp. 175-185). New York: Guilford.

Taylor, J., Flanagin, A. J., Cheney, G., & Seibold, D. R. (2000). Organizational communication research: Key moments, central concerns, and future challenges. In W. Gudykunst (Ed.), Communication Yearbook 24 (pp. 99-137). Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.

Flanagin, A. J. (1999). Theoretical and pedagogical issues in computer-mediated interaction and instruction: Lessons from the use of a collaborative instructional technology. The Electronic Journal of Communication / La revue Žlectronique de communication [Online], 9. Available: http://www.cios.org/www/ejcmain.htm (secure web site).

Monge, P. R., Fulk, J., Kalman, M., Flanagin, A. J., Parnassa, C., & Rumsey, S. (1998). Production of collective action in alliance-based interorganizational communication and information systems. Organization Science, 9, 411-433.

Fulk, J., Flanagin, A. J., Kalman, M., Monge, P. R., & Ryan, T. (1996). Connective and communal public goods in interactive communication systems. Communication Theory, 6, 60-87.

Cynthia Stohl, USC

Stohl, C. & Stohl, M. (In press, forthcoming May, 2007). Terrorism networks: Theoretical assumptions and pragmatic consequences. Communication Theory.

Stohl C. (In press) Organizational communication and globalization. In W Donsbach (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Communication. Oxford: Blackwell.

Flanagin, A. J., Stohl, C., & Bimber, B. (2006). Modeling the structure of collective action.

Communication Monographs, 73, 29-54.

Bimber, B., Flanagin, A. J., & Stohl, C. (2005). Reconceptualizing collective action in the contemporary media environment. Communication Theory, 15, 365-388

Stohl, M. & Stohl, C. (2005). Human rights, nation states, and NGOs: Structural holes and the emergence of global regimes, Communication Monographs, 72, 442-467

Stohl, Cynthia (2005) Transforming Engagement. In Pam Shockley-Zabalak and Jennifer Simpson (Eds.). Engaging communication: Informing work and transforming organizations through theory, research and practice (pp. 225-239). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Stohl, C. (2005) Globalization Theory. In Steve May and Dennis Mumby (Eds.) Engaging

Organizational Communication Theory and Research: Multiple Perspectives (pp. 223-262).

Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Stohl, C (2004) Connectedness in Action, Management Communication Quarterly 18, 280 - 287.

Stohl, C. & Putnam, L. (2003). Communication in bona fide groups: a retrospective and prospective account. In L. R. Frey (Ed.). Group communication in context: Studies of bona fide groups (2nd ed.)(pp. 399-414). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.**This book is comprised of empirical articles based upon the Bona Fide Group Perspective developed and elaborated by L. Putnam and C. Stohl (1990, 1994, 1996)

Stohl, C. & Walker, K. (2002) “A bona fide perspective for the future of groups: Understanding collaborating groups.” In L. Frey (Ed.) New directions for group communication (pp. 237-252), Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Stohl, C. and Cheney, G. (2001) “Participatory processes/paradoxical practices: Communication and the dilemmas of organizational democracy. ” Management Communication Quarterly, 14, 349-407.

Stohl, C. (2001) “Globalizing organizational communication.” In F. Jablin & L. Putnam (Eds.) The new handbook of organizational communication (pp. 323-375). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Stohl, C. (2000). “Pedagogy and paradigms: The search for common ground.” In S. Corman and M.S.Poole (Eds.) Perspectives on organizational communication: Finding common ground (pp. 183-189). New York: The Guildford Press.

Buzzanell, P. & Stohl, C. (1999). The Redding tradition of organizational communication scholarship: W.Charles Redding and his legacy. Communication Studies, 50, 4. 324-336.

Commons

Philippe Aigrain, Society for Public Information Spaces

Philippe Aigrain, Leslie Chan, Jean-Claude Guédon, John Willinsky with a response from Yochai Benkler, Symposium on “The Wealth of Networks”, Policy Futures in Education, 2008(2)

Philippe Aigrain, What will it take for society to get the full benefits of commons-based innovation?, talk at the Intellectual Property and Knowledge Commons: the Impact of TRIPS and other legal systems on the economy, innovation and knowledge flows Conference, European Parliament, Brussels, 5 December 2006, licence : Creative Commons-By-SA-2.5, access : PDF, source : OpenDocument Format.

Philippe Aigrain, Adapting commons regimes for biological information, extended version of a talk in the Open Source Biotechnology session, Wizards of OS 4 Conference, Berlin, septembre 2006, license : Creative Commons-By-SA-2.5, access : PDF, source : OpenDocument Format.

Philippe Aigrain, Towards a positive recognition of commons-based research and innovation in international norms, extended version of talk at the New Tools for the Dissemination and Knowledge and the Promotion of Innovation and Creativity: Global Developments and Regional Challenges seminar, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt, 7-8 September 2006, license: Creative Commons-By-SA-2.5, access: PDF, source: OpenDocument Format

Philippe Aigrain, Diversity, attention and symmetry in a many-to-many information society, First Monday 11(6), selected papers from the FM10 Conference on Openness: Code, Science and Content, license: Creative Commons-By-SA-2.5, access: HTML, source: LYX source, Python code, images and data sets as a zipped archive

Philippe Aigrain, Capabilities in the information era, talk at the Conference on the Politics and Ideology of “Intellectual Property”, TACD, Brussels, 20-21 March 2006, license: Creative Commons-By-SA-2.5, access: PDF, source: LYX

David Bollier Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own

Ready to Share: Fashion and the Ownership of Creativity, edited by David Bollier and Laurie Racine (Lear Center Press, 2006)

John Seely Brown

The Social Life of Information, John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid, Harvard Business School Press, February 2000

From Transactional Markets to Relational Markets: Amplifying the Innovation Potential of High Tech Regions, John Seely Brown and John Hagel III, High Tech Regions 2.0: Sustainability & Reinvention, SPRIE, November 2006

Creation Nets: Getting the Most From Open Innovation, John Seely Brown and John Hagel III, The McKinsey Quarterly, number 2, 2006.

Connecting Globalization & Innovation: Some Contrarian Perspectives, John Seely Brown and John Hagel III, Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, January 25-30, 2006.

“From Tightly Bound to Loosely Coupled,” John Hagel and John Seely Brown, Software Development, September 2003, Vol. 11, No. 9; pp 39-47.

Open Innovation, Henry Chesbrough, foreword by John Seely Brown, Harvard Business School Press, 2003.

John Clippinger (Social physics at the Berkman Center),

A Crowd of One: The Future of Individual Identity, Published April 18, 2007

Susan Crawford (Digital networks and the law)

"Transporting Communications." B.U. L. Rev. Forthcoming. Full text: SSRN

"The Radio and the Internet." Berkeley Tech. L.J. 23, no. 2 (2008): 933-1007. Full text: SSRN | HEIN (UMich users) | HEIN | Lexis | Westlaw

Brett Frishmann (Economics of the commons)

Cultural Environmentalism and The Wealth of Networks, University of Chicago Law Review (2007) (reviewing Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (2006)). Draft available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=972772

Network Neutrality and The Economics of an Information Superhighway: A Reply to Professor Yoo, 47 Jurimetrics 383 (2007) (with Dr.-Ing. Barbara van Schewick, Stanford). Draft available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1014691

Spillovers, 107 Colum.L.Rev. 257 (2007) (with Mark A. Lemley, Stanford) Draft available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=898881

Evaluating the Demsetzian Trend in Copyright Law, 3 Review of Law and Economics (2007) (peer reviewed) at http://www.bepress.com/rle/vol3/iss3/art2 Earlier draft available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=855244. See also Harold Demsetz, Frischmann's View of "Toward a Theory of Property Rights," Review of Law & Economics: Vol. 4 : Iss. 1, Article 7.Available at: http://www.bepress.com/rle/vol4/iss1/art7.

An Economic Theory of Infrastructure and Commons Management, 89 Minnesota Law Review 917 (2005). See also Lawrence Lessig, Re-Marking the Progress in Frischmann, 89 Minnesota Law Review 1031 (2005)Abstract, Draft available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=588424

Peer-to-Peer Technology as Infrastructure: An Economic Argument For Retaining Sony's Safe Harbor For Technologies Capable of Substantial Noninfringing Uses, J. Copyright Society 329 (2005) (peer reviewed)Abstract, Draft available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=726413

Some Thoughts on Shortsightedness and Intergenerational Equity, 36 Loyola U. Chi. L.J. 457 (2005)Abstract Draft available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=721025

Infrastructure Commons, 89 Mich. St. L. Rev. 121 (2005) (symposium article) A Dynamic Institutional Theory of International Law, 51 Buff. L. Rev. 679 (2003) [Abstract,%20 Abstract, ]Full article available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=463260

The Prospect of Reconciling Internet and Cyberspace, 35 Loyola U. Chi. L.J. 205 (2003)Abstract, Full article available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=515970

Privatization and Commercialization of the Internet Infrastructure: Rethinking Market Intervention into Government and Government Intervention into the Market, 2 Colum. Sci. & Tech. L. Rev. 1 (June 8, 2001)Abstract, Full article available at www.columbia.edu/cu/stlr/html/volume2/frischmannintro.html

Elinor Ostrom (Pioneer of academic study of the commons)

Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action, Ostrom, Elinor (1990). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Crafting Institutions for Self-Gover ning Irrigation Systems, Ostrom, Elinor (1992), San Francisco: Institute for Contemporary Studies.

Institutional Incentives and Sustainable Development: Infrastructure Policies in Perspective, Ostrom, E., Schroeder, L. & Wynne, S. (1993). Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Rules, Games, and Common-Pool Resources, Ostrom, E., Walker, J. & Gardner, R. (1994) Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Peter Suber

Trends favoring open access, Cyberinfrastructure Technology Watch (CTWatch), in a special issue on The Coming Revolution in Scholarly Communications & Cyberinfrastructure, Vol. 3, No. 3, Fall 2007.

Creating an Intellectual Commons through Open Access, in Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrom (eds.), Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice, MIT Press, 2006.

Unbinding knowledge: a proposal for providing open access to past research articles, starting with the most important, in Giandomenico Sica (ed.), Open Access, Open Problems, Milan: Polimetrica, October 20, 2006, pp. 43-58.

Open Access in the United States, in Neil Jacobs (ed.), Open Access: Key strategic, technical and economic aspects, Chandos Publishing, 2006.

Open access, impact, and demand: Why some authors self archive their articles, BMJ, May 14, 2005.

Siva Vaidhyanathan

Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity, NYU Press, 2001. (ISBN 978-0814788073)

The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System, Basic Books, 2004. (ISBN 978-0465089857)

Rewiring the Nation: The Place of Technology in American Studies, co-edited with Carolyn de la Peña, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. (ISBN 978-0801886515)

Movements

Mancur Olsen

The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, Harvard University Press, 1st ed. 1965, 2nd ed. 1971

Power and Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist Dictatorships, Oxford University Press, 2000

Charles Tilly

"Do Communities Act?" Sociological Inquiry 43: 209-40. (1973)

From Mobilization to Revolution (1978)

Dynamics of Contention (with Doug McAdam and Sidney Tarrow) (2001)

Social Movements, 1768-2004 (2004)

From Contentions to Democracy (2005)

Identities, Boundaries, and Social Ties (2005)

Trust and Rule (2005)

Contentious Politics (with Sidney Tarrow) (2006)

Regimes and Repertoires (2006)

Science and Technology Studies

Lucy Suchman

Human-Machine Reconfigurations, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2007.

Plans and situated actions : the problem of human-machine communication. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1987.

Law

James Boyle

Michael Heller (Property)

The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives (Basic Books, 2008)

Lawrence Lessig

Code: Version 2.0 (2006) ISBN 978-0-465-03914-2 - available as a free Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (by-sa) licensed download

Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy (2008) ISBN 978-1-594-20172-1

Eben Moglen (Free software, free culture, anarchy and the law)

Die Gedanken Sind Frei: The Free Software Movement and The Struggle for Freedom of Thought, Wizards of OS3, Berlin, June 10, 2004 Transcript

Freeing the Mind: Free Software and the Death of Proprietary Culture, Fourth Annual Technology and Law Conference, University of Maine Law School, Portland, June 29, 2003 PDF

The dotCommunist Manifesto, January 2003 PDF

The DotCommunist Manifesto: How Culture Became Property and What We're Going to Do About It, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, University Program in Cultural Studies, November 8, 2001

Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright, First Monday, August 1999 [PostScript]

Wendy Seltzer (Copyfight, the Internet and other IP matters)

"Why Open Source Needs Copyright Politics," in Open Sources 2.0, (Reilly, 2005)

Economic Sociology

Luc Boltanksi

Finding One's Way in Social Space : A Study based on Games, Boltanski, L., Thévenot, L. 1983, Social Science Information, 22 (4-5), 1983, p. 631-680

Distant Suffering: Morality, Media and Politics, Boltanski, L., Cambridge University Press, 1999.

The Legitimacy of Humanitarian Actions and their Media Representation : the Case of France, Boltanski, L., Ethical Perspectives, vol.7, n° 1, 2000, p. 3-16.

The New Spirit of Capitalism, Boltanski, L., Chiapello (Ève), London-New York, Verso, 2005

On Justification. Boltanski, L., Thévenot, L. 2006, The Economies of Worth, Princeton, Princeton University Press.

David Stark

“Sociotechnologies of Assembly” (with Monique Girard) in Governance and Information: The Rewiring of Governing and Deliberation in the 21st Century (2007);

“Rooted Transnational Publics: Integrating Foreign Ties and Civic Activism.” (with Balazs Vedres and Laszlo Bruszt) in Theory and Society (2006);

"Tools of the Trade: The Socio-Technology of Arbitrage in a Wall Street Trading Room,” (with Daniel Beunza) in Industrial and Corporate Change (2004);

"Ambiguous Assets for Uncertain Environments: Heterarchy in Postsocialist Firms" in The Twenty-First-Century Firm: Changing Economic Organization in International Perspective (2001); and Postsocialist Pathways: Transforming Politics and Property in Eastern Europe (with Laszlo Bruszt, 1998).

Weber

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Analysis

Axelrod

The Evolution of Cooperation, Robert Axelrod, (New York: Basic Books, 1984).

Structure of Decision, Robert Axelrod (ed.), (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976).

"The Further Evolution of Cooperation," Robert Axelrod and Douglas Dion, Science, 242 (9 December1988), pp. 1385-1390.

The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration, Robert Axelrod, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997).

Harnessing Complexity: Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier, Robert Axelrod and Michael D. Cohen, (New York: Free Press, 2000; paperback edition New York Basic Books, 2001).

James Moody

“Fighting a Hydra: A Note on the Network Embeddedness of the War on Terror”, Structure and Dynamics: eJournal of Anthropological and Related Sciences: 1(2): Article 9.

Barry Wellman

"An Egocentric Network Tale: Comment on Bien et al."An account of the origin and design of the East York studies. [Social Networks 15, Dec, 1993: 423-36.]

Activists

Paul B. Hartzog

http://www.panarchy.com/

Pat Mooney(Biotech and genetics for the people)

http://www.etcgroup.org/en/about/staff/pat_mooney.html

Peter Barnes, The Sky Trust

http://capitalism3.com/

Our Common Assets and the Future of Capitalism (Island Press, 2001)

Jonathan Rowe, The commons, politics, law and the spirit.

http://onthecommons.org/

Gary Ruskin, Creative activism against commercialism

http://www.commercialalert.org/