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Cyberchiefs : autonomy and authority in online tribes /
People are inventing new ways of working together on the internet. Decentralised production thrives on weblogs, wikis and free software projects. In Cyberchiefs, Mathieu O'Neil focuses on the regulations of these working relationships. Heexamines the transformation of leadership and expertise i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York : New York :
Pluto Press ; Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | People are inventing new ways of working together on the internet. Decentralised production thrives on weblogs, wikis and free software projects. In Cyberchiefs, Mathieu O'Neil focuses on the regulations of these working relationships. Heexamines 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 onlineprojects or 'tribes' such as the radical Primitivism archive, the Daily Kos political weblog, the Debian free software project, and Wikipedia, O'Neil shows that leaders must support maximum autonomy for participants, and he analyses the tensionsgenerated by this distribution of authority. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 242 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-232) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781849644037 1849644039 |