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Page 2 and 3: SommarioAcknowledgments............

Page 4 and 5: Free dmitry !......................

Page 6 and 7: AcknowledgmentsThis project marks t

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Page 14 and 15: and Marita Sturken, who went to bat

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Page 18 and 19: some cases superior to proprietary

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Marshall Sahlins (2000, 197; see al

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subversive variant of hacking, is m

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position, and more of a mosaic of i

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I hope this book will make it more

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of discursive publics. Chapter 2 (

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stabilize a relatively nascent cult

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PART I - HistoriesWhile we read his

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alternatives, is meant to inspire a

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Although the exact details vary, ma

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system administrator that gave him

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socializing) in equally diverse set

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the name and model number of the sp

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y the time they reached high school

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ubiquitous (Scott 2005; Sterling 19

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friends. It is not farfetched to de

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you finally learn *70, and life cha

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By virtue of the knowledge gained f

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immediately appealed to me.The “a

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existed for many hackers as an unco

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Windows 3.1 and had often programme

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AT&T’s Bell Labs. In 1969 Bell La

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to be the father of free software)

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methodology. Many likened it to the

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is more remarkable given how many p

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software’s bug reporting:One of t

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small token of this “lawyer effec

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epositories (where developers check

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Involving others also ensures that

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populist in their orientation—suc

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Figure 1.1. Debconf1,Bourdeaux, Fra

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and strangers—they see themselves

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pleasure of finally meeting so many

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hacking, gaming, sightseeing, and n

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networked digital media, might indi

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Figure 1.2. Debconf10, New York Pho

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Many geeks, who are coming from out

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Amaya Rodrigo, posted a bug report

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through narrative (Ricoeur 1996, 6)

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Figure 1.4. Debconf7, Edinburgh Att

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Figure 1.5. Hackers on Planet Earth

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Figure 1.6. Debconf3, Oslo Publicdo

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statuses, social structures, ethica

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objects.

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is the regular basis for their asso

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Transportation technologies, trains

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cathartic release of laughter and p

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cultural mores of this subculture (

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cultivation, among hackers, of a we

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or directly protested the so-called

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1970-1984: The commodification of s

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(1976; emphasis added) maintained:

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the glimmerings of what is now know

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According to Adam Jaffe, before 198

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Many hackers, and Stallman in parti

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magazine Dr. Dobb’s Journal: I co

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copies, the owner of a copyright gr

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sounded socialistic and ideological

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awareness and scrutiny. The expandi

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uphold and monitor intellectual pro

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However muted Stallman’s approach

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license was “one of the very best

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already released a number of widely

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functionality. Since its release in

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developers confirmed this dual life

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it much closer into the orbit of hi

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socialism. Even though free softwar

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with great pride as an early triump

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as the dot-com boom also fueled the

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future of free software: “If this

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collection of alternative copyright

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at the time the president of Time W

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hearings, these associations consis

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DMCA: hackers, in the face of such

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developer named “vilinger” is p

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and government controlled companies

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(1998-2004) witnessed its diversifi

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PART II - Codes of valueFigure 3.1.

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The next two chapters attend to wha

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at the finer points of a particular

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their social world. The tension bet

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efers to a version number]. 83 I wa

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said, both the world and programmin

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Monks, underscoring the single-mind

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Fischer (1999, 261) notes, requires

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and beloved “object,” and at ot

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proceed: with remarkable craftiness

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translate it in any meaningful mann

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NAME mutt—The Mutt Mail User Agen

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user that behind these highly syste

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manipulate form to engage in this t

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dispersion and sense of independenc

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This duality arises during the cour

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channels are designated by #name-of

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One other inspiration for me has be

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commitment to a fully autonomous, s

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technical citizens. 94This designat

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asic questions will raise immediate

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developers mostly whine about not b

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it’s not run;; that function remo

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technically clever enough to be acc

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if (!q) {/* Init */q = malloc (size

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Blandy.At that time only the six co

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the formidable difficulty of claimi

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and against the group.Each true jaz

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1997; Macpherson 1962). Nor does it

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although there are differences and

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example of the general characteriza

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equalize the conditions by which ot

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CHAPTER 4 - Two Ethical Momentsin D

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codified textual norms. “Some sma

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over one thousand, punctuated crise

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membership criteria, explicitly def

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delegates and various technical “

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primarily through a single email li

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the protocol annoying or even downr

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efore the Linux era, powerfully cap

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principles of free software and des

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of nonfree software.We Will Give Ba

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eer, it was not free as in speech;

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to the program must not depend on t

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nontechnical role, not vested with

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long as they are doing work and des

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development.” Everyone, not a sel

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which is usually expressed in claim

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position with respect to hackers wh

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humorous, bitingly sarcastic remark

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These debates happen on IRC, bug-tr

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Building Trust through the NMPEssen

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small group of developers had been

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crucial. After the applicant’s ad

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Debian can use cryptographic algori

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capacity to articulate their agreem

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thought it was silly not to become

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Debian Social Contract. Proprietary

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adds value to it in numerous person

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they wish to take on within the pro

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the potent energy of dissatisfactio

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Portrait of a crisisThe first story

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has been a major source of work for

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and thus discordance, where differe

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Yaarr: but that is what happened: t

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technical production.In Plato’s i

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are kept open. As a result of these

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decisionmaking process to the whole

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superfluous.” Rather, Bakhtin ass

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training. Many medium- to large-siz

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species of free speech.In contrast

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e clever. His work was part of a wo

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Is the Unix company SCO suing IBM o

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seen as easily subject to political

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actual speech which is protected by

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As an illustration, below I quote f

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developers act in the capacity of l

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employer develop, produce, sell, or

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intellectual property law and the l

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encryption as munitions and hence s

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DVDs; Johansen’s program allowed

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and law enforcement confiscated his

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acquired coherence and had been art

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Much of the coherence emerged throu

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poetry, music, and film. A Web site

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#!/usr/bin/perl -w # 531-byte qrpff

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long before he sawcomputers and the

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one hundred three—two times; then

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another programmer, Sklyarov. Becau

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conversations built on those initia

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free software (including programs t

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y arguing that source code should b

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that challenge the shape along with

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advocates acquire legal literacy.Le

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legal counsel, Eben Moglen: “Prac

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stipulate that economic incentives

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epresents an explicit and firm deni

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software, hackers believe those sen

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clear connection between the market

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did not determine how others graspe

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change made big waves in the news.I

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technical infrastructure of the IMC

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property conservancy.” 162The mod

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Of the ten times I have seen Lessig

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coercion (government, markets, and

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notion of a commons.The politics of

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eing sanctioned as law: “Laws kee

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property, and freedom within libera

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intellectual property law have over

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exemplifies what George E. Marcus a

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While F/OSS was certainly covered e

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vision or values being heralded, as

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Starting in 2005, but continuing un

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individualism. There is no better e

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widely circulated (and much discuss

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assumption that this individualism

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Asad, Talal, ed. 1973. Anthropology

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Bollier, David. 2009. Viral Spiral:

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21 (3): 416-46.Christen, Kimberly.

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Collins, Randall. 2004. Interaction

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http://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/21/b

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University of Chicago Press.Fischer

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cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/articl

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ncer/ (accessed November 8, 2011).G

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Artificial Life in a Digital World.

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Modern City. New York: Verso.Juris,

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Social Construction of Scientific F

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Malaby, Thomas. 2007. Beyond Play:

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the Open Source Revolution. Cambrid

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August 24, 2011).Peters, John Durha

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Homesteading on the Electronic Fron

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Schutz, Alfred. 1970. On Phenomenol

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Press.Swedin, Eric G., and David L.

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the Clash between Freedom and Contr