E-SPEAIT Reading List

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This is not mandatory reading but rather a suggested list of materials relevant to the course.

Books

• BARNES, Peter. Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2006 http://www.onthecommons.org
• BENKLER, Yochai. The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006 https://www.benkler.org/Benkler_Wealth_Of_Networks.pdf
• BERRY, David M. Copy, Rip, Burn: The Politics of Copyleft and Open Source. Pluto Press, 2008
• BOLDRIN, Michele, LEVINE, David K. Against Intellectual Property. 2007. https://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/againstnew.htm
• BOLLIER, David. Viral Spiral. https://www.viralspiral.cc/sites/default/files/ViralSpiral.pdf
• CASTELLS, Manuel, HIMANEN, Pekka. The Information Society and the Welfare State: The Finnish Model. Oxford University Press 2004.
• CASTELLS, Manuel. The Internet Galaxy. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press 2009
• COLEMAN, E. Gabriella. Coding Freedomː The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking. Princeton University Press 2013.
• FELLER, Joseph (ed) et al. Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software. MIT Press 2005.
• GOLDMAN, Ron, GABRIEL, Richard. Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Business Strategy. Morgan Kaufman Publishers 2006. https://dreamsongs.com/IHE/IHE.html
• GRAHAM, Paul. Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age. O'Reilly 2004. Available also at https://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
• HIETANEN, Herkko, OKSANEN, Ville., VÄLIMÄKI, Mikko. Community Created Content: Law, Business and Policy. Turre Publishing 2007. https://turre.com/images/stories/books/webkirja_koko_optimoitu2.pdf
• HIMANEN, Pekka. The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age. Random House Inc. New York, 2001.
• von HIPPEL, Eric. The Sources of Innovation. Oxford University Press 1988. https://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/sources.htm
• von HIPPEL, Eric. Democratizing Innovation. The MIT Press 2005. https://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/democ1.htm
• KELTY, Christopher. Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software Duke University Press, 2008. https://twobits.net
• KOCH, Stefan. Free/Open Source Software Development. Idea Group, 2005
• LEVY, Steven. Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution. New York, NY: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 2001. Two first chapters are available at https://www.gutenberg.org/etext/729
• LESSIG, Larry. Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. The Penguin Press 2004. https://www.free-culture.cc/freecontent/
• LESSIG, Larry. The Future of Ideas. Random House 2001. https://the-future-of-ideas.com
• LESSIG, Larry. Code v. 2.0. Basic Books, 2006. https://pdf.codev2.cc/Lessig-Codev2.pdf
• LOCKE, Christopher et al. The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual. Perseus Books Group 2001. https://cluetrain.com/book/index.html
• MARTIN, Brian. Information Liberation: Challenging the Corruptions of Information Power. Freedom Press, London 1999. https://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/98il/
• MCLEOD, Kembrew. Freedom of Expression: Overzealous Copyright Bozos and Other Enemies of Creativity. Doubleday/Random House 2005. https://kembrew.com/documents/mcleod-freedomofexpression3.pdf
• MOODY, Glyn. Rebel Code: Inside Linux and the Open Source Revolution. Perseus Publishing, Cambridge MA 2001
• STALLMAN, Richard Matthew. Free Software, Free Society. Ed. Joshua Gay. GNU Press 2002. https://www.gnu.org/doc/TOC-FSFS.html
• THEOBALD, Robert. The Rapids of Change: Social Entrepreneurship in Turbulent Times. Knowledge Systems Inc. 1987.
• TORVALDS, Linus, DIAMOND, David. Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary. First Edition, Harper-Collins 2001
• WILLIAMS, Sam. Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software. O'Reilly 2002. https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/
• WILLINSKY, John. The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship. MIT Press 2005. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/willinsky/TheAccessPrinciple_TheMITPress_0262232421.pdf
• WYNANTS, Marleen, CORNELIS, Jan. How Open is the Future? Economic, Social and Cultural Scenarios inspired by Free & Open-Source Software. CrossTalks, VUB Brussels University Press 2005. https://crosstalks.vub.ac.be/publications/howopenisthefuture/crosstalks_book1.pdf
• Bruce Perens Open Source Series
• O'Reilly Open Books

Articles and shorter writings

• BENKLER, Yochai. Coase's Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm. https://www.benkler.org/CoasesPenguin.html
• BERNERS-LEE, Timothy. Net Neutrality: This is serious. https://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/144
• HIMANEN, Pekka. Challenges of the Global Information Society. report for the Committee for the Future in Parliament of Finland 2004. https://www.eduskunta.fi/efakta/vk/tuv/challenges_of_the_globalinformationsociety.pdf
• LEONARD, Andrew. Free Software Project. https://dir.salon.com/topics/free_software_project/
• MOGLEN, Eben. Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright. First Monday, Vol. 4, Issue 8, 1999. https://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_8/moglen/index.html
• NEWMAN, Nathan. The Origins and Future of Open Source Software. A NetAction Whitepaper. https://www.netaction.org/opensrc/future/
• POYNDER, Richard. The Basement Interviews. https://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/03/basement-interviews.html
• RAYMOND, Eric Steven. The Cathedral and the Bazaar. https://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/
• RAYMOND, Eric Steven. How to become a Hacker. https://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
• RISAN, Lars. Hackers produce more than software, they produce hackers. https://folk.uio.no/lrisan/Linux/Identity_games/
• SALUS, Peter. The Daemon, the Gnu, and the Penguin. A History of Free and Open Source Software. https://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=20051013231901859
• SDForum. The Future of Commercial Open Source. Think Tank Summary Report 2006. https://lwn.net/images/pdf/OpenSourceThinkTank2006_FinalReport.pdf

Films

• Revolution OS. Wonderview Productions 2001 https://www.revolution-os.com/ (film ei ole paraku vabalevis)
• Steal This Film. League of Noble Peers 2006/2007. https://www.stealthisfilm.com (saadaval torrentina)
• Good Copy, Bad Copy. Rosforth 2007. https://www.goodcopybadcopy.net/ (saadaval torrentina)

Various pages

• Budapest Open Access Initiative. https://www.soros.org/openaccess/index.shtml
• Creative Commons. https://www.creativecommons.org
• Directory of Open Access Journals. https://www.doaj.org
• Electronic Frontier Foundation. https://www.eff.org
• Foundation for Free Internet Infrastructure. https://www.ffii.org
• Free Art License. https://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en/
• Free Culture. https://www.freeculture.org
• Free Software Foundation. https://www.fsf.org
• Jargon File. https://www.catb.org/jargon/
• MIT OpenCourseWare. https://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
• Open Source Initiative. https://www.opensource.org
• Science Commons. https://science.creativecommons.org

RSS feeds

• Slashdot https://rss.slashdot.org/slashdot/eqWf
• Cory Doctorow https://craphound.com/?feed=rss2
• Wired Campus Blog https://feeds.chronicle.com/chronicle/wiredcampus
• Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/weblog/rss
• Glyn Moody https://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/atom.xml
• Stowe Boyd https://www.stoweboyd.com/message/atom.xml
• Open Culture https://feeds.feedburner.com/OpenCulture
• WROTE https://www.digital-rights.net/?feed=rss2
• Wikinomics https://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/feed

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