Sara Schoonmaker
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 301331 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sara Schoonmaker |
| NOMBRES | Sara |
| APELLIDO | Schoonmaker |
| FIRMA | SCHOONMAKER S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Redlands |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 17 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1992 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Navigating Pandemic Crises
Since the 19th century, sociologists have grappled with understanding the dynamics of social change. In this article, I explore three key changes that emerged with the COVID-19 pandemic. First, professional workers, students, and others who could manage it used platforms like Zoom to shift their work and social activities online to minimize exposure to the virus. At the same time, this surge of online activity expanded the opportunities for corpo…
Free Software, the Internet, and Global Communities of Resistance
Hacked
La marge comme ressource pour l’action dans la mouvance du logiciel libre
Le phénomène du logiciel libre constitue un cas particulièrement intéressant pour questionner la notion de marge et sa transformation en ressource pour l’action à l’ère du numérique. Deux cas sont étudiés. D’une part, l’élaboration à l’échelle mondiale du projet LibreOffice montre que des développeurs clés d’un logiciel plus ancien ont su s’organiser dans les marges pour en faire un bien commun. D’autre part, la tenue des Rencontres Mondiales du …
Hacking the Global
This paper explores software's pivotal role in the power dynamics of contemporary capitalism. The author theorizes Free Software as a new form of property that is infecting capitalism like a virus, challenging the system of private property central to its dominant logic. Free Software can be produced by developers working for free in peer communities or in profit-oriented firms. The author explores the conditions under which Free Software is prod…
Software Politics in Brazil
In this article, I examine free and open source software as a unique terrain of struggle over the politics of globalization, focusing on the Brazilian government's software strategy under the Lula administration. First, I locate this strategy in the historical context of the Brazilian government struggles for technological development and autonomy. I highlight how the Brazilian government used its power as a hierarchical organization to take adva…
Globalization from Below
This article explores one of the central struggles over the politics of globalization: forging alternatives to neoliberalism by developing new forms of globalization from below. It focuses on a unique facet of this struggle, rooted in the centrality of information technologies for global trade and production, as well as new forms of media and digital culture. The analysis has four main parts: examining the key role of software as a technological …
Piece of Cake
Based on qualitative interviews with 20 mothers and 12 fathers from diverse class and racial backgrounds, this article develops a grounded theory of parents' complex experiences with their children's birthday celebrations. Like a piece of cake, these experiences are multi-layered, multi-textured, and cooked up by parents and children as they choose from the array of products available in consumer culture. Parents savor these celebrations as times…
Kids in Context
High-Tech Trade Wars
High-Tech Development Politics
This article examines the current nature of dependency in the context of global restructuring, where technological change in computers and telecommunications has made those sectors central for global economic competition. The Brazilian policy to promote computer manufacturing and software development, or informatics, is an example of a strategy to transform dependency in this context. This article examines the political and economic conditions th…
Trading on‐line
A range of social theorists have argued that technological changes in microelectronics have given rise to a new kind of post industrial or information society. This article analyzes the role of international flows of computerized information in the global economy as a way to evaluate debates about the nature of contemporary society. Two kinds of flows that offer distinct advantages to transnational corporations as their major users are identified…
State Autonomy and Structural Constraints
In 1987, the Brazilian government's decision to deny licensing of Microsoft's MS-DOS operating system led to the imposition of U.S. trade sanctions. This article examines the implications of the MS-DOS case for understanding the role of the state in newly industrializing countries and its relationship to local and foreign capital. It assesses the relevance of dependency theory, identifying its major contribution as the analysis of the structural …
Piece of Cake
Based on qualitative interviews with 20 mothers and 12 fathers from diverse class and racial backgrounds, this article develops a grounded theory of parents' complex experiences with their children's birthday celebrations. Like a piece of cake, these experiences are multi-layered, multi-textured, and cooked up by parents and children as they choose from the array of products available in consumer culture. Parents savor these celebrations as times…
Globalization from Below
This article explores one of the central struggles over the politics of globalization: forging alternatives to neoliberalism by developing new forms of globalization from below. It focuses on a unique facet of this struggle, rooted in the centrality of information technologies for global trade and production, as well as new forms of media and digital culture. The analysis has four main parts: examining the key role of software as a technological …
Kids in Context
Hacked
High-Tech Development Politics
This article examines the current nature of dependency in the context of global restructuring, where technological change in computers and telecommunications has made those sectors central for global economic competition. The Brazilian policy to promote computer manufacturing and software development, or informatics, is an example of a strategy to transform dependency in this context. This article examines the political and economic conditions th…
State Autonomy and Structural Constraints
In 1987, the Brazilian government's decision to deny licensing of Microsoft's MS-DOS operating system led to the imposition of U.S. trade sanctions. This article examines the implications of the MS-DOS case for understanding the role of the state in newly industrializing countries and its relationship to local and foreign capital. It assesses the relevance of dependency theory, identifying its major contribution as the analysis of the structural …
Trading on‐line
A range of social theorists have argued that technological changes in microelectronics have given rise to a new kind of post industrial or information society. This article analyzes the role of international flows of computerized information in the global economy as a way to evaluate debates about the nature of contemporary society. Two kinds of flows that offer distinct advantages to transnational corporations as their major users are identified…
High-Tech Development Politics
This article examines the current nature of dependency in the context of global restructuring, where technological change in computers and telecommunications has made those sectors central for global economic competition. The Brazilian policy to promote computer manufacturing and software development, or informatics, is an example of a strategy to transform dependency in this context. This article examines the political and economic conditions th…
High-Tech Trade Wars
Piece of Cake
Based on qualitative interviews with 20 mothers and 12 fathers from diverse class and racial backgrounds, this article develops a grounded theory of parents' complex experiences with their children's birthday celebrations. Like a piece of cake, these experiences are multi-layered, multi-textured, and cooked up by parents and children as they choose from the array of products available in consumer culture. Parents savor these celebrations as times…
Kids in Context
Globalization from Below
This article explores one of the central struggles over the politics of globalization: forging alternatives to neoliberalism by developing new forms of globalization from below. It focuses on a unique facet of this struggle, rooted in the centrality of information technologies for global trade and production, as well as new forms of media and digital culture. The analysis has four main parts: examining the key role of software as a technological …
Software Politics in Brazil
In this article, I examine free and open source software as a unique terrain of struggle over the politics of globalization, focusing on the Brazilian government's software strategy under the Lula administration. First, I locate this strategy in the historical context of the Brazilian government struggles for technological development and autonomy. I highlight how the Brazilian government used its power as a hierarchical organization to take adva…
Hacking the Global
This paper explores software's pivotal role in the power dynamics of contemporary capitalism. The author theorizes Free Software as a new form of property that is infecting capitalism like a virus, challenging the system of private property central to its dominant logic. Free Software can be produced by developers working for free in peer communities or in profit-oriented firms. The author explores the conditions under which Free Software is prod…
La marge comme ressource pour l’action dans la mouvance du logiciel libre
Le phénomène du logiciel libre constitue un cas particulièrement intéressant pour questionner la notion de marge et sa transformation en ressource pour l’action à l’ère du numérique. Deux cas sont étudiés. D’une part, l’élaboration à l’échelle mondiale du projet LibreOffice montre que des développeurs clés d’un logiciel plus ancien ont su s’organiser dans les marges pour en faire un bien commun. D’autre part, la tenue des Rencontres Mondiales du …
Free Software, the Internet, and Global Communities of Resistance
Hacked
Navigating Pandemic Crises
Since the 19th century, sociologists have grappled with understanding the dynamics of social change. In this article, I explore three key changes that emerged with the COVID-19 pandemic. First, professional workers, students, and others who could manage it used platforms like Zoom to shift their work and social activities online to minimize exposure to the virus. At the same time, this surge of online activity expanded the opportunities for corpo…
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