Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software - Couverture souple

Kelty, Christopher M.

 
9780822342649: Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software
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ISBN 10 : 0822342642 ISBN 13 : 9780822342649
Editeur : Duke University Press, 2008

Synopsis

In Two Bits, Christopher M. Kelty investigates the history and cultural significance of Free Software, revealing the people and practices that have transformed not only software but also music, film, science, and education. Free Software is a set of practices devoted to the collaborative creation of software source code that is made openly and freely available through an unconventional use of copyright law. Kelty explains how these specific practices have reoriented the relations of power around the creation, dissemination, and authorization of all kinds of knowledge. He also makes an important contribution to discussions of public spheres and social imaginaries by demonstrating how Free Software is a "recursive public"--a public organized around the ability to build, modify, and maintain the very infrastructure that gives it life in the first place.

Drawing on ethnographic research that took him from an Internet healthcare start-up company in Boston to media labs in Berlin to young entrepreneurs in Bangalore, Kelty describes the technologies and the moral vision that bind together hackers, geeks, lawyers, and other Free Software advocates. In each case, he shows how their practices and way of life include not only the sharing of software source code but also ways of conceptualizing openness, writing copyright licenses, coordinating collaboration, and proselytizing. By exploring in detail how these practices came together as the Free Software movement from the 1970s to the 1990s, Kelty also considers how it is possible to understand the new movements emerging from Free Software: projects such as Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that creates copyright licenses, and Connexions, a project to create an online scholarly textbook commons.

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À propos de l?auteur

Christopher M. Kelty is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Rice University.

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Éditeur
Duke University Press
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0822342642
ISBN 13 
9780822342649
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
396
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0822342421 ISBN 13 :  9780822342427
Editeur : Duke University Press, 2008
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