Relevant Research and Articles - Digital Creativity

Primary Sources

UCC Report

Yochai Benkler: The Wealth of Networks

Wikipedia

The Guardian

Study finds Podcast use rising but small

Pew Study: Teens and Technology (2005)

Pew Internet Project, Generations Memo (US) (2005)

technolocigal and social context, p. 9 ff.

Emerging trends among primary school children's use of the internet (UK) (2004) [Chat&IM, P2P]

Pew Study: Content Creation (2004)

The Guardian (2006): Whose content is it anyway? [question of ownership, who gets the money?]

Pew Report: Teens and Technology (2005)[How teens use IM, personal expression, et seq.]

2007 Digital Future Report: Data on broadband at home, the wireless Internet, on-line media, user-generated content and, social networking (2006)

The Guardian: Digination - Research on our digital behavior (2006)

Social Tagging Panel (based on a dissertation on del.icio.us) & Session Notes

UGC Generator Motivation Study (2006)

Nielsen NetRating: Podcasting gains

Comscore: More than half of MySpace users over 35 ItFacts: Demographic Comparison 2005/2006 Zephoria: Comscore data is misleading: Unique visitors vs. users

Pew Internet: Teen Content Creators and Consumers (2005)

Digital Ethnography: The YouTube Project

Secondary Sources

Deutschsprachige Wikipedia - 500'000 Artikel überschritten

Interview with T. Berners-Lee: Online life will produce more creative children (2006)

Various articles about cyber psychology, incl. topics about friend networking sites (NL)

Siliconvalley.com: Police track reckless driver on youtube (police pursuit in cyberspace, fine of $1'300)

The Register: Second life equal with first life (2006)

NZZ: Die Festplatte ist überall voll, das Internet als omnipräsenter Speicher für persönliche Daten (2006), Datenschutz, Software für UCC, etc.

NZZ: Jeder ein TV-Mitarbeiter (2006)

The Guardian: We really need some discontent creators (2006) (about youtube, the future of creativity, etc.)

Siliconvalley.com: As online viewing booms, the amateurs give way to big media (2006)

Who owns the money? (2006)DIY Media Blog

NYTimes: Web Content by and for the Mass

Technologies of the Childhood Imagination: Yugioh, Media Mixes, and Everyday Cultural Production (Otaku, 2005)

Motivation to Contribute

Rossi: Decoding the free open source software puzzle (2004)

Lerner/Triole: The economics of technology sharing: open source and beyond (2004)

Lerner/Triole: The simple economics of open source

Hars/Ou: Working for free? Motivations of participating in open source projects

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Holmstrom: Mangerial Incentive Problems: A Dynamic Perspective (1999)

Weber: The political economy of open source software (2000)

Pagano: Legal Positions and institutional complementarities (2002)

McGovan: Legal implications of open source (2001)

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A quantitative profile of a community of open source Linux developers (1999)

Han et al: Delayed returns to open source Participation (2002)

von Hippel: The sources of innovation (1988)

Kollik/Smith: Managing the virtual commons (1999)

Bessen: Open Source software: Free Provision of complex public goods

Lakhani/Wolf: Why hackers do what they do: understanding motivation efforts in open source software projects (2003)

Moglen: Anarchism triumphant: Free software and the death of copyright (1999)

The Economies of online cooperation: Gifts and public goods in cyberspace

Raymond: A brief history of ackerdom (1999)

Bergquist/Ljungberg: The power of gifts (2003)

Zeitly: Gift economies in the development of open source software (2003)

Cohendet/Creplet/Dupouet: Organizational innovation, communities of practice and epistemic communities: the case of linux (2001)

Bezroukov: Open source software development as a special type of academic research critique of vulgar raymondism (1999)

Franck/Jungwirth: Reconciling investors and donators - the governance structure of open source (2001)

Osterloh/von Wartburg: Open source - new rules in software development (2002)

Second Life

Real Estate Millionaire Business Week: Second's Life First Millionaire (2006)

Der Spiegel: Der Spielgel: Reichtum aus dem Nichts. Grossgrundbesitzerin im Internet (2006)

Updates

• YouTube sets Music Pact with Independent Label

YouTube is broadening its efforts to legitimize music and videos posted on its video-sharing site through a deal that will authorize the use of hit music by several acts signed to a prominent independent label. The deal, with Wind-up Entertainment Inc. covers more than 225 songs.

Full Article: The Wallstreet Journal, 2007