[ICTs-and-Society] Journal of Peer Production - Announcement

[maurizio teli]

[Apologies for multiple posts]

“Productive Negation”: the inaugural issue of the Journal of Peer 
Production is now published

http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-1/

The Journal of Peer Production scrutinises the contradictions of peer 
(collaborative) production. It is thus situated in between grassroots 
initiatives and discussions driven by practitioners and activists and 
the debates taking place in academia. The inaugural issue's theme, 
“Productive negation”, aims to interrogate the role of peer production 
as a “work of the negative”, that is to say as a critical force. As the 
traditional left is struggling to come up with an adequate response to 
the mounting crisis of the capitalist system, contributors propose a 
range of interpretations about the relationship between the 
profit-oriented capitalist mode of production and the commons-based and 
oriented mode of peer production. The Journal of Peer Production also 
strives to make a small contribution to the reforming of scientific 
publishing. Taking a cue from Wikipedia, the journal publishes original 
article submissions, reviewers' reports, and signals indicating how 
reviewers perceive the revised article. Our ambition is to make the 
process of peer reviewing papers more transparent and more effective.

The inaugural issue is coordinated by Mathieu O'Neil. It includes three 
research papers, four invited comments and three debate papers:

George Dafermos, Authority in Peer Production: The Emergence of 
Governance in the FreeBSD Project

Stefano De Paoli, Vincenzo D’Andrea and Maurizio Teli, Why Free Software 
Is Not the Antonym of Commercial Software: Two Case Studies from 
Corporate and Volunteer Based Projects

Francesca Musiani, Caring About the Plumbing: On the Importance of 
Architectures in Social Studies of (Peer-to-Peer) Technology

Michel Bauwens, From the Theory of Peer Production to the Production of 
Peer Production Theory

Jakob Rigi, Peer to Peer Production as the Alternative to Capitalism: A 
New Communist Horizon

Christian Siefkes, Beyond Digital Plenty: Building Blocks for Physical 
Peer Production

Jean Zin, Changing the System of Production

Stefan Meretz, Peer Production and Societal Transformation: Ten Patterns 
Developed by the Oekonux Project

Maurizio Teli, Peer Production and Societal Transformation: A 
Practice-Based Perspective

Toni Prug, A Note on Evaluation Processes for Social Phenomena with 
Ambitious Claims