Social media penetrate our lives: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many other platforms
define daily habits of communication and creative production. This book studies the rise of …

Few virtues are as celebrated in contemporary culture as openness. Rooted in software
culture and carrying more than a whiff of Silicon Valley technical utopianism, openness—of …

Wikipedia is no longer just another source of knowledge about the world. It is fast becoming
a central source, used by other powerful knowledge brokers like Google and Bing to offer …

The global web and its digital ecosystem can be seen as tools of emancipation,
communication, and spreading knowledge or as means of control, fueled by capitalism …

The historically established relationship between knowledge and power has enabled critical
scholars across disciplines to interrogate the ways in which knowledge has served as the …

Science and technology studies is famous for questioning conceptual and material
boundaries by following controversies that cut across them. However, it has recently been …

The selected topics are complementary rather than definitive; they illustrate the potential of
the field and start conversations about how the crusades and crusading are perceived in our …

When a major global news event occurs, such as the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka or the
March shootings in New Zealand, Wikipedia contributors from around the world come …

The warm and fuzzy rhetorics of network cultures–words like collaboration, participation and
open communities–have always been made possible through acts of analytic metonymy …

This thesis considers the role of online platforms (Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) in
digital social research from a Science and Technology Studies (STS) perspective and …