Cyberchiefs
Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Pluto Press
Published:20th Mar '09
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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.
'Offers an important and relevant account of the innovations in forms of authority expressed by the social dynamics of Internet group formations' -- Tiziana Terranova, associate professor of Sociology of Communications and Cultural Studies at the University of Naples 'L'Orientale'and author of Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age (Pluto Press, 2004).
ISBN: 9780745327969
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 316g
224 pages