Free Software, the Internet, and Global Communities of Resistance

Hacking the Global

Nonfiction, Computers, Internet, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology
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Author: Sara Schoonmaker ISBN: 9781317374190
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: January 19, 2018
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Sara Schoonmaker
ISBN: 9781317374190
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: January 19, 2018
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

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.

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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.

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