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 corporate settings, challenging the dominance of proprietary software firms and promoting the digital commons. Drawing upon key cases and interviews with free software proponents based in Europe, Brazil and the U.S., the book explores pathways toward creating the digital commons and examines contemporary political struggles over free software, privacy and civil liberties on the Internet that are vital for the commons' continued development.
| ISBN: | 9781138942981 |
| Publication date: | 30th January 2018 |
| Author: | Sara Schoonmaker |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture |
| Genres: |
Media studies Ethnic studies Sociology Communication studies Regional / International studies Development studies Globalization Political economy Intellectual property law Science funding and policy Scientific research Software Engineering Computer science Politics and government |
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 corporate settings, challenging the dominance of proprietary software firms and promoting the digital commons. Drawing upon key cases and interviews with free software proponents based in Europe, Brazil and the U.S., the book explores pathways toward creating the digital commons and examines contemporary political struggles over free software, privacy and civil liberties on the Internet that are vital for the commons' continued development.
Free Software, the Internet, and Global Communities of Resistance features in the following genres: Media studies, Ethnic studies, Sociology, Communication studies, Regional / International studies, Development studies, Globalization, Political economy, Intellectual property law, Science funding and policy, Scientific research, Software Engineering, Computer science, Politics and government
Free Software, the Internet, and Global Communities of Resistance is available in Paperback, Hardback, Ebook
Free Software, the Internet, and Global Communities of Resistance was written by Sara Schoonmaker and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Free Software, the Internet, and Global Communities of Resistance has 240 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture series
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