Articulating the Speed(s) of the Internet

The Case of Open Source/Free Software

Bibliographic Data

ID4355937
AuthorsUrsula Holtgrewe (0000-0001-8386-0249, Institut für Soziologie, Universit‰t Duisburg/Essen, D-47057 Duisburg, Germany., corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume13
Issue1
Pages129-146
Publication date2004-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTime & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0961-463X • E-ISSN: 1461-7463
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0961463x04040750
OpenAlexW2167907829
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited23

The Internet is widely considered as a key factor of speeding up social and cultural change. It represents the merging of information and communication technologies and enables flows of information and capital, and communication and cooperation regardless of space and, possibly, time. This article explores the example of Open Source/Free Softwaredevelopment, i.e. software development in self-organized projects based on a considerable share of voluntary work. Here, we find complex articulations of speeding up and slowing down technological development. Open Source/Free Softwareprojects complement the logic of speeding up technological progress and of obsolescence with a reflexive logic of optionality, variety and sustainability which addresses the accessibility of technology and knowledge as a precondition for future creativity beyond markets and organizations

Appropriation · Business · Creativity · Data science · Epistemology · Information and Communications Technology · Knowledge management · Obsolescence · Political science · Sociology · The Internet · Variety (cybernetics · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development · Open Source Software Innovations · Marketing

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