Monday, December 7, 2009

Free Wilderness: Free, Modulatable Book, Kelty's "Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software," Information Technology Revolution

Of the about 200 academic books in https://web.archive.org/web/20100220014826/http://www.webnographers.org/index.php?title=Main_Page (webnographers.org) about the Internet Revolution, only one, Chris Kelty's "Two Bits," is modulatable, - an innovation in open source and free idea sharing, significantly due to digital technologies and the internet.




Kelty, Christopher M. 2008. Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.


This book is designed as an academic conversation which you can help write; it's designed to be interactively edited and modulated. You can find it here at https://web.archive.org/web/20100710041820/http://www.webnographers.org/index.php?title=Books (webnographers.org/index.php?title=Books#Free_Software_Culture)


'Two Bits' from Duke University Press is also available for free, as part of the free software movement, here: twobits.net, where you can modulate it.

It's like a wiki (editable web pages).


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Anthropology of Software - Here's a Harvard video of Chris Kelty talking about the Modulatable & Free "Two Bits" (DukeU) -

cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/4386


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Invitation to modulate World University & School: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University




















(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/12/free-wilderness-modulatable-book-chris.html - December 7, 2009)

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