Hey, I've just finished my thesis on the ideology of FOSS and its various uses. Unfortunately, it's not in English. However I would recommend as a good way to lose one's illusions Matteo Pasquinelli's book "Animal Spirits": http://matteopasquinelli.com/animal-spirits. Also a bit radical but very interesting is "The Telekommunist Manifesto" by Dmytri Kleiner: http://www.networkcultures.org/_uploads/%233notebook_telekommunist.pdf I found both authors very provocative as they are making critique from within the left. Good luck to your student :)) Julia ________________________________ From: Andrew Herman <aherman@wlu.ca> To: air-l@aoir.org Sent: Monday, October 3, 2011 1:17 PM Subject: [Air-L] Critical Writing on FOSS and Wikipedia Dear Fellow Aoiristas! I have a master student who is contemplating doing an MA Thesis on the comparative political economy of FOSS and Wikipedia. She definitely wants to approach the topic through a Marxist lens so I underscore the salience of "political economy" here. My first take on her proposal is that she is awfully naive about the incipient "info communism" of Wiikipedia but really needs some good critical empirical work to lift the histomat scales from her eyes. Any suggestions you might have our comrade, however deviant or deviationist, would be most appreciated. IR 12 is coming! AH Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor and Chairperson Department of Communication Studies Graduate Program in Cultural Analysis and Social Theory Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693 _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/