From Friday to Sunday: the hacker ethic and shifting notions of labour, leisure and intellectual property

Brown, James J.

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“…In 2006, Facebook continued to expand its network base, allowing access to over 22,000 commercial organization networks (Zywica & Danowski, 2008). The last major network expansion occurred in 2006, which allowed access to anyone over the age of 13 with a valid e-mail address (J. J.…”

Section: Survey Of Facebook Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Review of Facebook Research in the Social Sciences

Wilson

Gosling

Graham

2012

Perspect Psychol Sci

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A REVIEW OF FACEBOOK RESEARCH 2 AbstractWith over 800 million active users, Facebook is changing the way hundreds of millions of people relate to one another and share information. A rapidly growing body of research has accompanied the meteoric rise of Facebook as social scientists assess the impact of Facebook on social life. In addition, researchers have recognized the utility of Facebook as a novel tool to observe behavior in a naturalistic setting, test hypotheses, and recruit participants. However, research on Facebook emanates from a wide variety of disciplines with results being published in a broad range of journals and conference proceedings, making it difficult to keep track of various findings. And because Facebook is a relatively recent phenomenon, there still exists uncertainty about the most effective ways to do Facebook research. To address these issues, we conducted a comprehensive literature search, identifying 410 relevant articles, which we sorted into five categories: Descriptive analysis of users, motivations for using Facebook, identity presentation, the role of Facebook in social interactions, and privacy and information disclosure. The literature review serves as the foundation from which we assess current findings and offer recommendations to the field for future research on Facebook and online social networks more broadly.Keywords: Facebook, online social network, social networking sites, social network analysis, privacy, motivation, identity presentation A REVIEW OF FACEBOOK RESEARCH 3 A Review of Facebook Research in the Social SciencesThe sheer online ubiquity of Facebook is astounding. As of February 2012, Facebook has over 845 million users (more than the population of Europe) who spend more than 9.7 billion minutes per day on the site (Facebook, 2012; Rusli, 2012; for a description of Facebook, see Appendix A). Users share 4 billion pieces of content per day, including uploads of 250 million photos, and Facebook is now integrated with over seven million websites and applications (Facebook, 2012; Tsotsis, 2011). In March of 2010, Facebook passed Google to become the most visited website in the U.S., accounting for 7.07% of all U.S. web traffic (Dougherty, 2010). And Facebook's dominance extends well beyond United States, with over 80% of current users residing outside of the U.S. (Facebook, 2012). Despite having only about 3,000 employees worldwide, Facebook is valued at around $100 billion U.S. dollars (Facebook, 2012;Gertner, 2011; Siegler, 2011, Swartz, 2012. In short, since its creation in February of 2004, Facebook has become a spectacular success by creating a massive new domain in which millions of social interactions are played out every day. This burgeoning new sphere of social behavior is inherently fascinating but it also provides social scientists with an unprecedented opportunity to observe behavior in a naturalistic setting, test hypotheses in a novel domain, and to recruit participants efficiently from many countries and demographic groups.As researchers scramble to ...

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Section: Survey Of Facebook Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Review of Facebook Research in the Social Sciences

Wilson

Gosling

Graham

2012

Perspect Psychol Sci

1,002

491

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“…If we only tangented these debates in this work, especially when looking at Wikipedia quality, we hope that this article may help the discussants to better understand how the project works. The discussion by Konieczny (2009b) of Wikipedia being or not a social movement participates to the same questioning about the impact of this collective action on the society, on the way the knowledge is produced and transmitted, but also to a broader discussion of the links between the contribution to online open communities and the involvement of a job (on that respect, see the discussion proposed by Brown Jr. (2008), relying on Himanen (2002), on open-source and Wikipedia participants, where he argued that these hackers are creating new borders between work and leisure).…”

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What We Know About Wikipedia: A Review of the Literature Analyzing the Project(s)

Jullien

2012

SSRN Journal

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This article proposes a review of the literature analyzing Wikipedia as a collective system for producing knowledge. 1 Introduction. Wikipedia project is one of the tremendous successful project of knowledge production ever, with more than 3.5 million articles for the English version and nearly one million visits per day 2 by researchers (Ortega, 2009). From an Information System research point of view, this example of open knowledge projects should provide useful information on how structuring online open knowledge project for it to succeed 4 , but also for internal organization's projects, as rms are institutions created to allow collaboration (Simon, 1957; March and Simon, 1958), and even dened by Grant (1996) as "institution for integrating knowledge [of its members]. And regarding this function, the wiki tool, allowing distant and sequential collaboration around a structured document seems to be very promising (Hasan and Pfa, 2006a,c,b). It also, for libraries, a new platform to stock information and knowledge resources, to to promote digital collection and thus to reach new users (Pressley and McCallum, 2008), and today a prominent source of online information, notably for health (Laurent and Vickers, 2009), where false information may have dramatic consequences. But to be used as a model, how the model works is needed to be better understood. This is need for internal purpose too: the Wikipedia project managers may want to monitor the activity: is the English Wikipedia more ecient than the French one, or are projects (portals) more or less ecient, more or less productive, is there a minimal, an optimal number of editors for an article 5 ? And, to quote Crowston et al. (2006, p. 124), to be able to learn from teams that are working well, we need to have a denition of`working well'. To do so, we rst rely on the literature of Information System, but also on the literature of knowledge common, to propose a framework of how the elements interact. Then, we propose are review of the existing literature on how Wikipedia works. 2 Theoretical contributions. 2.1 Research questions. There are numerous research articles dealing with Wikipedia (7029 articles in the science direct base on October 20 th), notably because this encyclopedia is used as a test base in information and 4 Even if the comparison between dierent industries must be done very carefully, as shown by Müller-Seitz and Reger (2009) on the comparison between open-source with Open Source car and Wikipedia projects. 5 For research questions pointed by the Wikimedia foundation, which support the Wikipedia project, see http: //meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Index. 2 Theoretical contributions. 3 language processing systems 6 and information retrieval tasks (Buriol et al., 2006). This socio-technical project (Bryant et al., 2005; Benker and Nissenbaum, 2006), where the tools used and the rules mediate and shape user activity around open collaborative writing, can be seen as a community of practice (Hara et al., 2010), or even as an aggregation of multiple co...

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“…A second feature of the hacker ethic is a desire to engage in activities in an active, hands-on manner (Levy 1984) in which work and leisure are blurred together (Brown 2008). Rather than passively consume technology and media, hackers instead choose to learn about and tinker with systems that leads to creating new or improved systems as well as an ability to manipulate them.…”

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“The Greatest Crime Syndicate since the Gambinos”: A Hacker Critique of Government, Law, and Law Enforcement

Steinmetz

Gerber

2013

Deviant Behavior

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The current study presents a content analysis of articles, editorials, short stories, and book reviews from the widely read and disseminated hacker zine 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, which were examined for author discussions of governments, law, law enforcement, and government officials. A total of five themes were uncovered. The first three themes are part of a hacker critique of governments that describe these institutions as controlling, as incompetent or inadequate, and as creators of collateral damage. Then, exceptions to the hacker critique are presented and their significance assessed. Finally, solutions to the problems the authors discuss are presented.

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From Friday to Sunday: the hacker ethic and shifting notions of labour, leisure and intellectual property

Cited by 18 publications

References 11 publications

A Review of Facebook Research in the Social Sciences

A Review of Facebook Research in the Social Sciences

What We Know About Wikipedia: A Review of the Literature Analyzing the Project(s)

“The Greatest Crime Syndicate since the Gambinos”: A Hacker Critique of Government, Law, and Law Enforcement

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