Module 5 - General Reading (1)

1. Information Ecologies

• Rafael Capurro, Towards an Information Ecology. In: Irene Wormell (Ed.): Information and Quality. London: Taylor Graham 1990, 122-139.
• Information Ecologies by Felix Stalder

Case study: Peer To Peer

• How the old 'napster' worked, by How Stuff Works
• An introduction to peer-to-peer computing, by David Barkai
• An introduction to peer-to-peer networks, by Vinod Musuthamy
• file sharing by Wikipedia

Information transfer

• P2P Networking: An Information-Sharing Alternative Parameswaran, Susarla & Whinston
• Peer-To-Peer Goes Corporate David Liupschultz
• Peer-to-Peer for Academia – Andy Oram

Community

• Jenkins, ‘Playing Our Song?’ Technology Review, July 2, 2003

Legal issues: copyright

• "Copying is Theft ..." And other legal myths in the looming battle over peer-to-peer. Mark Rasch
• Rip, Mix, Burn: The Politics of Peer to Peer and Copyright Law by Kathy Bowrey and Matthew Rimmer -
• Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Since Napster - Magdalena Heim-Smith