Free Software, the Internet, and Global Communities of Resistance.

Author/creator Schoonmaker, Sara, 1956- author.
Format Electronic
EditionFirst edition.
PublicationLondon : Taylor and Francis, 2018.
Description1 online resource : text file, PDF.
Supplemental ContentProQuest Ebook Central
Subjects

SeriesRoutledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture
Routledge studies in new media and cyberculture. ^A702662
Contents Chapter 1 Hiding in Plain Sight -- Software, Surveillance, and Capitalism in Everyday Life / Sara Schoonmaker -- chapter 2 Coding the Digital Commons -- Foundations in Free Software and the Emerging Internet / Sara Schoonmaker -- chapter 3 From Markets to Commons -- Free Software as Catalyst for Change / Sara Schoonmaker -- chapter 4 Forking toward the Commons -- Struggles to Sustain Freedom through Organizational Change / Sara Schoonmaker -- chapter 5 Software Politics -- Building Communities to Defend Software Freedom / Sara Schoonmaker -- chapter 6 Internet Politics -- Organizing for Net Neutrality and Civil Liberties / Sara Schoonmaker -- chapter 7 Global Communities of Resistance and the Digital Commons / Sara Schoonmaker.
Scope and content "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 rights on the Internet that are vital for the commons' continued development."--Provided by publisher.
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