Category:Research
A compilation of academic and other research projects on the peer to peer aspects of the internet and society.
Danah Boyd recommends: Students, License your dissertation under Creative Commons!!
We support:
- Just One Giant Lab (JoGL) is the first research and innovation laboratory operating as a distributed, open and massive mobilisation platform for volunteer-based, IP-free task solving. [1]
- The research initiative: Journal of Peer Production
- Goteo, commons-oriented Crowdfunding platform for P2P research, from Platoniq
- The P2P facilitation and research method 'par excellence' is: Co-operative Inquiry
- Don't forget to check out our own P2P Lab, based in Ioannina, northern Greece and augmented with a global research network
What's Happening in the P2P Research Space
- check out the entries on Open Review and Open Peer Review
- Call for a Joint Research Group for Peer Production. By Jarkko Moilanen.
Some initiatives:
Review Commons
"Journal-independent portable review has the potential to accelerate and streamline the process of publishing. Authors can use their peer reviews to inform their journal selection and find the best fit for their work from the start. Because the reviews carry over to any affiliate journal, it will also reduce re-reviewing at multiple journals that currently imposes a large burden of duplicated activities across the scientific community (estimated at millions of hours of reviewer time each year)."
- Veronique Kiermer [2]
R2R_Research_Process_Protocol_Project page at the P2P Foundation Wiki
URL = http://p2pfoundation.net/The_R2R_Research_Process_Protocol_Project
Please bear in mind that it is indeed a “Request for Comments”, as we believe that the final form of this P2P research initiative should be itself the result of a P2P production process.
Jarkko Moilanen’s Call for Action
Towards a Joint research group for Peer Production
URL = http://surveys.peerproduction.net/2012/09/joint-research-group-for-peer-production/
As described by Jarkko, this call for action aims to:
1) Find all Peer-production researchers and collect them around the same 'table'.
2) Thus create more coherent approach to (including statistical) Peer-production research.
3) Form basis for joint research and tools to ensure future research.
James Carlson’s research project suggestion in relation to Space Federation
"The School Factory's Space Federation, a US-based network of p2p spaces, would appreciate direction on this. What methods for measuring and collecting data, even a survey for spaces to assess community capacity, equipment, footage, economics, could we support? We would happily share any results we can collect and our drafts of these concepts."
P2P Lab
The P2P Lab, a P2P Foundation and Ragnar Nurkse School spin-off, is a media lab interested in interdisciplinary research on free/open source technologies and practices.
Its mission is to:
- strive for integrative insights on the open technologies and the peer-to-peer practices.
- provide consultancy support to organisations and institutions regarding open technologies and relevant socio-economic trends.
- produce innovative, global techno-economic solutions to local problems.
- write, edit and publish articles, reports and books in the diverse range of topics we investigate.
- organise open events for reflection and action as well as to educate people about critical and creative tools for society-changing.
More: http://www.p2plab.gr/en/
Joe Corneli’s Free Technology Guild
URL = http://campus.ftacademy.org/wiki/index.php/Free_Technology_Guild
J Corneli: "Part of the relevance of our project is as a new way to secure funding for research and a new way of doing research (links from the wiki-research-l, for “Research into Wikimedia content and communities”, but what’s more interesting to us is a sort of “wiki way” of doing research).
In short, we have a lot to add but our growth is necessarily slow for now. Full disclosure: we too would like to be a “project incubator”, this time mainly for technical projects that can get some benefits from working together (example projects).”
The "Change Academic Research Forever" project.
URL = http://www.rockethub.com/projects/10270-change-academic-research-forever
Michael Lissack writes: "We are building a one click button to help researchers find one another based on what they read and search. Find an expert instantly. We want to enable researchers to find out "who should I talk to?" with merely a click of a mouse instead of a many hour slug through keywords and Google. We have the raw ingredients but we need to build the button. It will be based on the "what should I read?" button which already exists in the ISCE Library.
The ISCE Library currently is a collection of 1000+ full text on-line books with a unique search capability -- the user can upload a draft of their research project (say 2000 words) and the system will analyze the upload and then tell them what books in the library they should read for further insight, good quotes, additional material etc. The who else to talk to functionality is the missing link. Please help us make this dream a reality. We have built the bulk of the necessary technology (demo). We need your help to both fund the initial community of researchers and to build the social network search technology. We are crowdfunding through RocketHub (a service which operates much like Kickstarter)." http://www.rockethub.com/projects/10270-change-academic-research-forever
To try a demo of the service please go to http://isce-library.net login as user: [email protected] password is "Library"
The Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship
Listen to: Jon Wilkins on Organizing Independent Scholars with the Ronin Institute
Hack Your PhD
Célya Gruson-Daniel:
"Hack your Phd" launched in October 2012. Brings together a diverse community of doctoral researchers, designers and social entrepreneurs around the issues of Open Science and Open Knowledge. The goal here is to set up workshops (or "hackatons") to experiment with different initiatives of open Science while educating the public on this issue. The central idea is to use the collective intelligence of the community coming from different horizons using the new tools from science and open education. HackYourPhd wants to show that new ways of doing reseasrch exist, and can only benefit research itself as well as the relationship between science and society."
Alt-Academy
- Alt-Academy takes a grass-roots, bottom-up, publish-then-filter approach to community-building and networked scholarly communication.
Citations
"In traditional research on people, the roles of researcher and subject are mutually exclusive. The researcher only contributes the thinking that goes into the project, and the subjects only contribute the action to be studied. In co-operative inquiry these exclusive roles are replaced by a co-operative relationship of bilateral initiative and control, so that all those involved work together as co-researchers and as co-subjects. They both design, manage and draw conclusions from the inquiry, and undergo the experience and action that is being explored. This is not research on people, but research with people."
- John Heron on Cooperative Inquiry
Call for Papers
- Value and Currency in Peer Production: is there a place for currency -- and therefore exchange and (economic) value commons-oriented peer production? [3]
Key Resources
- the Free Open Source Research Communitycollects research papers on FLOSS, Free Software, Open Source Software
- Network Research Centers] for Social Network Analysis
- UIA encyclopedia of world problems and human potential
- Centre for Research on Networked Learning and Knowledge Building
- Digital Resistance research is monitored via the iRevolution blog
- The Center For Internet Research TCFIR is a transdisciplinary research cohort. All P2P members are invited.
Key Articles
- Mieke Bal: Let’s Abolish the Peer-Review System: "In this short commentary, Mieke Bal sets out her ten objections to the peer-review system in academic publishing."
Key Institutions / Movements
Some favourite potential informal research hubs and networks, compiled by Dante Monson:
Academic Internet Research Centers
- The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society [4]
- The Berkman Center for Internet & Society [5]
- The Centre for Internet and Society Bangalore [6]
- The MIT Center for Civic Media [7]
- The NEXA Center for Internet & Society at Politecnico di Torino [8]
- The Oxford Internet Institute [9]
- The Center for Technology & Society at the Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) Law School [10]
- The International Society of Blockchain Scholars [11]
P2P Action Research Groups
Research on Commons-Based Infrastructuring
- Infra-Demos: [12] "infra-demos is an anthropological project studying the crisis in the existing infrastructural models and the emergence of new participatory ones in Greece.
Resources By Country
Italy
- Marco Giustini recommends: If you're interested in researching about ancient commons' organizations, look for terms "comuna", "comunanza agraria" and "partecipanza agraria" in Italy. Really very interesting field of research! http://www.usicivici.unitn.it/
Key Statistics
- 0.08% of the world population has access to that 90% of research papers (via Eugenio Battaglia)
Key Tools
- The Digital Research Tools (DiRT) collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively: software to help you manage citations, author a multimedia work, or analyze texts, etc...
- Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, open source easy-to-use software tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. It works as an add on to the free open source Firefox web-browser. Main webpage: http://www.zotero.org/
Endorsements
- The P2P Foundation is part of 3D Living Innovation consortium, a Living Lab research project created on the initiative of La Fabrique du Futur
Pages in category "Research"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 1,490 total.
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- DESIS Distributed and Open Production Cluster
- DESIS Network
- Dezentrum
- DiDIY Project
- Diego González
- Digital Activism and Non-Violent Conflict
- Digital Asia Hub
- Digital City and the New Economic Paradigm
- Digital Civil Society Lab
- Digital Commons as an Escape from Capital
- Digital Commons Research Group
- Digital Culture and Mobile Communication Group
- Digital DIY for Self-Sustainability of Rural Areas
- Digital Economy and Its Implications for Labour
- Digital Labor Resources
- Digital Labor Working Group at CUNY
- Digital Labour
- Digital Labour Group
- Digital Labour in the Gig Economy
- Digital Media and Social Movements
- Digital Publishing Toolkit
- Digital Resistance
- Digital Self-Determination Research Sprint
- Digital Social Currency
- Digital Tools, Distributed Making, and Design
- Dignism
- DIME Lab
- Dimmons
- Directory of French Doctoral Commons Researchers - 2017
- Disappearance of the Neighborhood Assembly Movement in Buenos Aires
- Disassembling the Blockchain Trust Machine
- Disciplinarity
- Disclosing Information about the Self is Intrinsically Rewarding
- Discovery Network
- Discrimination and Inequality in the Sharing Economy
- Discussion Affordances for Natural Collaborative Exchange
- Discussion on Sensorica's Open Value Accounting for the P2P Value Research Project
- Disruptive Condition
- Disruptive Technological Change and its Implications for Education
- Distributed Design Market Platform
- Distributed Generation with High Penetration of Renewable Energy Sources
- Distributed Leadership for Interconnected Worlds
- Distributed Networked Biobased Economies
- Distributed Production Lab
- Distributed Research Lab
- DIYBio Community Laboratories
- DIYbiologists as Makers of Personal Biologies
- Do-It-Yourself Biology and the Rise of Citizen Biotech-Economies
- Dorota Marciniak
- Duncan Watts on Using the Web To Do Social Science
- Dynamics of Virtual Work
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- Ecofeminism
- Ecofeminism in the Research Field
- Ecological Production in a Post-Growth Society
- Ecologically Oriented Research of the P2P Foundation
- Ecology and Commons Lab
- Economic and Energy Consumption Aspects of Additive Manufacturing
- Economic and Social Cybernetics
- Economic Growth Remains Ultimately Dependent on Growth in Material and Energy Use
- Economie des communautés médiatées
- Economies of Commoning
- Ecosystem Commons
- Ecosystem of Commons-Based Peer Production and its Transformative Dynamics
- Ecovillage Development as Socio-Economic Segregation
- Effects of Software Patent Policy on the Motivation and Innovation of Free and Open Source Developers
- Effimera
- EHealth
- Electronic Literature Directory
- Element-Based Method of Civilization Study
- Elena Hoover
- Eleni Katrini
- Emancipatory Tradition in Futures Studies
- Emergence of a Planetary Self
- Emergence of Democratic Firms in the Platform Economy
- Emergence of Global Consciousness and its Impact on the System of Global Governance
- Emergence of Makerspaces in the Smart City
- Emergence of the Transdisciplinary Individual
- Emergence, Self-organization and Diversity in the KDE Community
- Emergent Dialogue Lab
- Emerging Conception of Participation and Democracy in Online Settings
- Empirical Analysis of Networked Political Protests
- Empirical Investigation into Collaborative Heroism
- EMUDE
- Energy Cafés
- Energy Consumption of Distributed Manufactured Goods
- Energy End-Use Forecasting
- Enquête au cœur des FabLabs, hackerspaces et makerspaces de 2012 à 2015
- Enric Senabre
- Entrepreneurial Communities, Immaterial Commons and Working Futures as Exemplified in Coworking
- Entrepreneurial State
- Entropical
- Entropie Laboratory
- Environmental Sustainability of the Collaborative Economy
- Ephemerality
- Epistemology of Wikipedia
- ESTCube as a Case of Commons-Based Technology in the Digital Era
- Ethical Marketing in Age of Horizontal Socialization
- Ethics and Rights in Cyber Security
- Ethics of Waste in the Information Society
- Ethnography of Online Social Networking
- ETUI Labor and Union Research Overview
- Eugenio Battaglia
- Eugenio Battaglia on the ScholRev Project
- European Big History Network
- European Commons Experts
- Evaluating Open Hardware from an Ecological Economics Perspective
- Evaluation of Twitter's Role in Public Diplomacy and Information Operations in Iran's 2009 Election Crisis
- Everyday Growing Cultures
- Everyday Practices of Commoning and the Production of Urban Space in Dublin
- Evidence from Human Genome Research on Anti-Innovation Effects of Patents
- Evolution of Research at the P2P Foundation
- Evolution, Complexity and Cognition Research Group
- Evolutionary Dynamics of Coordinated Cooperation
- Evolutionistics
- Examining the Effect of Openness on Innovation
- Exchange Networks and Parallel Currencies in Greece
- Experimental Study of Informal Rewards in Peer Production
- Explorations in Altruistic Love
- Exploring Digital Democracy
- Exploring New Configurations of Network Politics
- Exploring the Emergence of the Cyberhero Archetype
- Extinction Studies
- Extreme Citizen Science
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- Fab City Hamburg and its Mission-Oriented Coalition for Digital Transformation
- Fab Lab Athens
- Fab Lab Community as Hybrid Innovation Ecology for the Peer Production of Physical Goods
- Fabbing Practices
- Fabien Miard on Mobile Phones as Facilitators of Political Activism
- Faceted Identity
- Facilitating Customer Co-Design through Rapid Manufacturing
- Factory of the Common
- FairShares Institute for Cooperative Social Entrepreneurship
- Feedback Loops of Attention in Peer Production
- Feminine Respectability and Sexuality for Young Women Online
- Field Sociality
- Field Theory
- Fifty by Fifty Project
- File-Sharing as Social Practice
- Finance Innovation Lab
- Financialization of the University
- FLOAT
- Flor Avelino
- FLOSS POLS
- FlossWorld
- FOAM
- Food 2030
- Food as Commons or Commodity in Academia
- Food Citizens
- Force 11
- Force 11 Manifesto
- Forming and Norming Social Media Adoption in the Corporate Sector
- Forschungsnetzwerk Liquid Democracy
- Foundations of Archdisciplinarity
- Foundations of Cryptoeconomic Systems
- Four Elementary Forms of Sociality
- Four States of Digital Democracy
- Fractional Scholarship
- Framework for Open and Reproducible Research
- Francesca Musiani
- Francesca Pick
- Free and Open-Source Software for Physics Research
- Free Culture Research Conference
- Free Open Source Research Community
- FreeLab - Poland
- Friendship and Social Network Sites
- From Designing Products to Thinking New Systems
- From Multi-Stakeholder Cooperatives to Open Cooperatives in Food and Farming
- From Redistributed Manufacturing to a Circular Economy
- From the Positive Psychology of Abraham Maslow to the Positive Sociology of Pitirim Sorokin
- Functioning of a Free Software
- Functions and Dysfunctions of Hierarchy
- Fundamental Dimensions within Liquid Feedback and Other Voting Technologies
- Fusolab
- Future Cryptoeconomics Lab
- Future Makespaces in Redistributed Manufacturing
- Future of Education as a Commons
- Future of the Alterglobalization Movement
- Future Visions for 2030 of the Economy, Sustainability and Employment
- Futures of Power Wiki and Scenario Project
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- Gabriel Mugar
- Gabriella Coleman
- Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums as Commons
- Gauthier Guerin
- Gebser’s Research Methodology
- GeCo Living Lab
- General Evolution Research Group
- General Theory of Collaboration - Bibliography
- General Theory of Relationality
- Genome Hackers, Rebel Biology, Open Source and Science Ethic
- Georg van den Berg
- George Dafermos
- George Dafermos on the Peer Governance of Open Source Projects
- German Civil Society Research Platform Forschungswende
- Giacomo Dalisa
- GiacomO D’Alisa
- Gideon Kossoff
- Gigi Roggero
- Gill Seyfang
- Global and Cryptocurrency Benchmarking Study 2017
- Global Brain and Universal History