1st Edition
Free Software, the Internet, and Global Communities of Resistance
By Sara Schoonmaker
Copyright 2018
266 Pages
by
Routledge
266 Pages
by
Routledge
266 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores software's pivotal role as the code that powers computers, mobile devices, the Internet, and social media. Creating conditions for the ongoing development and use of software, including the Internet as a communications infrastructure, is one of the most compelling issues of our time. Free software is based upon open source code, developed in peer communities as well as... Read more
1. Hiding in Plain Sight: Software, Surveillance and Capitalism in Everyday Life
2. Coding the Digital Commons: Foundations in Free Software and the Emerging Internet
3. From Markets to Commons: Free Software as Catalyst for Change
4. Forking Toward the Commons: Sustaining Freedom through Organizational Change
5. Software Politics: Building Communities to Defend Software Freedom
6. Internet Politics: Organizing for Net Neutrality and Civil Liberties
7. Global Communities of Resistance and the Digital Commons
Biography
Sara Schoonmaker is Professor of Sociology at the University of Redlands, USA.
