open source

Intro

In recent years much attention has been paid to Open Source as an alternative way to develop and distribute software. It has been successful in a number of areas, such as managing knowledge, develop cutting edge technology, virtual organizing and cooperation.

Open source is to let anyone have access to the source code, so that they can modify it. Open source could be seen as a movement, where communities of highly skilled programmers collectively develop software, often of a quality that outperforms commercial proprietary software. These movements are based on virtual networking on Internet and the web. They are loosely coupled communities kept together by strong common values related to hacker culture. Work seems to be totally distributed, delegated and loosely coupled. The highly skilled members contribute by pride to the collective effort of free software development. 

Research

In this project the open source phenomena is investigated from different perspectives:

• OS and future forms of organizing knowledge work and making business
• OS as a social movement (organizational forms, models of leadership, ideologies and forms of communication, collective action)
• OS and cultural studies (knowledge, identity, symbols, narratives and meaning)

Contact

	Magnus Bergquist, PhD magnus.bergquist@viktoria.se
	Jan Ljungberg, PhD http://www.informatik.gu.se/~janl/ jan.ljungberg@viktoria.se
	Anna Maria Szczepanska, PhD Student http://www.viktoria.se/~anna/ anna@viktoria.se

 

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Author: Anna Maria Szczepanska - anna@viktoria.se