[Events] COMMONS-BASED PEER-PRODUCTION: ANALYSIS OF OPEN SOURCESOFTWARE TROUGH ACTIVITY THEORY LENS - Pavel Andreev - May13th - 11am - 12noon at LRG032

[Edel.Collins]

Commons-based Peer-production: Analysis of Open Source Software Trough
Activity Theory Lens


  Invited speaker:

 Pavel Andreev

 

 

 

13th May - 11:00am to 12:00noon - LRG032

 

 

ABSTRACT 

The exclusivity of hierarchies and markets as modes of production was
challenged, when Benkler drew on early manifestations of the open source
software (OSS) phenomenon to propose "a third mode of production" that
he labeled "Commons-based peer-production" (CBPP). Despite the
widespread availability of examples of CBPP and a well articulated call
for further research on the phenomenon, very few of the extensive number
of papers that cite Benkler's work go beyond an acknowledgement that the
phenomenon that they studied is an example of CBPP. 

The objective of this study is to conceptualize viable commons-based
peer-production through an analysis of the production of open source
software. In doing so, we seek to understand how OSS communities, as the
most prevalent form of CBPP, (i) leverage the information processing and
resource allocation advantages and (ii) overcome the organization and
motivation problems. Our analysis is based on a secondary analysis of
524 papers published between 1998 and 2009 using Activity Theory as a
conceptual lens. Overall, the study concludes that although the
degradation of the commons in the traditional sense is not a major issue
in CBPP (due to the non-rival nature of resources), failure to
continually nurture and improve the commons is a major threat to the
viability of this mode of production.

 

BIO

Pavel Andreev is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Business Information
Systems, University College Cork, Ireland where he is engaged in the
Open Code, Content and Commerce (O3C) project.

He earned his Ph.D. in the Department of Industrial Engineering and
Management at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. His
dissertation focused on the impacts of information and communication
technologies (ICT) on personal activities such as teleworking,
teleshopping, telelearning, telebanking, telemedicine, and teleleisure.
The research, which yielded interesting results pertaining to the
effects of ICT on leisure activities demand, activities, and travel,
resulted so far in six journal and conference papers, as well as a
number of seminar and conference presentations_. His research also
focuses on management of information systems (IS) and, in particular,
Organization of Open Source Projects (including business modeling with
implementation of Open Source technologies), Social Networks, Mobility,
Healthcare Information Systems (HIS) and Quantitative Research Methods.
He is currently researching how peer production is organized on
exploring open source development through an activity theory lens. He
can be reached at p.andreev at ucc.ie <mailto:p.andreev at ucc.ie> .

 

 

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