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New forms of collaborative innovation and production on the Internet: an interdisciplinary perspective
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Abstract The Internet has enabled new forms of large-scale collaboration. Voluntary contributions by large numbers of users and co-producers lead to new forms of production and innovation, as seen in Wikipedia, open source software development, in social networks or on user-generated content platforms as wel... view more
The Internet has enabled new forms of large-scale collaboration. Voluntary contributions by large numbers of users and co-producers lead to new forms of production and innovation, as seen in Wikipedia, open source software development, in social networks or on user-generated content platforms as well as in many firm-driven Web 2.0 services. Large-scale collaboration on the Internet is an intriguing phenomenon for scholarly debate because it challenges well established insights into the governance of economic action, the sources of innovation, the possibilities of collective action and the social, legal and technical preconditions for successful collaboration. Although contributions to the debate from various disciplines and fine-grained empirical studies already exist, there still is a lack of an interdisciplinary approach.... view less
Keywords
Wikipedia; Internet; web 2.0; innovation; social network; internet community; virtual community; cooperation
Classification
Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology
Interactive, electronic Media
Free Keywords
Collaborative Innovation; Social networks; Web 2.0 services; Production
Document language
English
Publication Year
2011
Publisher
Univ.-Verl. Göttingen
City
Göttingen
Page/Pages
196 p.
ISBN
978-3-86395-020-0
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works