Following David's call for new ways to think about the relationship between company and community, I want to recommend Tiziana Terranova's article "Free Labor" (from Social Text and available at: http://www.btinternet.com/~t.terranova/freelab.html). Rather than take "company" and "community" as the autonomous, bounded entities they sometimes claim to be, Terranova treats the two as often already intertwined. She then looks at the distribution of paid and unpaid labor and processes of profiting from same in several online settings. As a result, she's got a nice analytical lens for looking at the mingling of commercial and communal activities in a variety of contexts. Best, Fred Turner Lecturer in Communication Sloan School of Management MIT
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Frederick Turner