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 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
eBook, English, 2009
Pluto Press ; Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, London, New York, 2009
Academic Library
1 online resource (ix, 242 pages)
9781849644037, 1849644039
656841493
The autonomy imperative
The distribution of charisma
The tyranny of structure
The grammar of justice
The last online tribe : primitivism.com
The primary war : dailykos.com
The imperfect committee : debian.org
The great sock hunt : wikipedia.org
Online tribal bureaucracy
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English
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