Since 2011 Peter has been coordinating Rhizomatica, an organization he started to promote new communication technologies that helps run the first community‐owned and managed cell phone network in the Americas.
Yana Boeva is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology of Technology and Environment, Institute for Social Sciences, as well as at the Cluster of Excellence on Integrative Computational Design and Construction for Architecture based at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. She has studied makerspaces and fab labs in Western Europe and Canada focusing on the socio‐political and historical dimensions of digital fabrication in design towards de‐professionalization of design practice, concepts of expertise, and notions of re‐industrialization. Her current research explores the transformation of design, architectural practice, and different user perceptions with the inclusion of active matter and automation in contemporary fabrication models. She holds a PhD (2018) in Science and Technology Studies from York University, Toronto, and an MA (2011) in Media Studies from Humboldt University Berlin.
Margie Borschke is the author of This is Not a Remix: Piracy, Authenticity and Popular Music (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017). She is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Media in the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.
Kat Braybrooke is a designer and digital anthropologist whose work explores the critical implications of the spaces and practices of creative digital communities in places like Europe and China as sites of social and environmental transformation. She is Research Fellow in the School of Engineering and Informatics at the University of Sussex, UK, and Visiting Researcher in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London. Web: http://codekat.net.
Sébastien Broca is a sociologist. He is currently Associate Professor in the Media and Communication Department at Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint‐Denis, France. He works on digital capitalism and on the digital commons, at the crossroads of political economy and critical theory. He has published Utopie du logiciel libre (Le passager clandestin, 2013). He is currently involved in the research projects EnCommuns and TAPAS and is co‐editor of the scholarly journal Anthropology&Materialism. sebastien.broca@univ‐paris8.fr
Stéphane Couture is an assistant professor at University of Montreal, Canada. Trained in computer science, sociology, and communication studies, he has completed several research projects on the collaborative practices and cultures of free and open source software. He has also studied and been engaged in initiatives related to alternative media, digital activism, and the relationship between democracy and technology more broadly.
George Dafermos is a postdoctoral researcher at the Heteropolitics research project at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, where he explores the transformative potential of commons‐based peer production. He has been involved in several of the projects mentioned in the chapter “Prophets and Advocates of Peer Production”: he was a participant in the Oekonux Project (2002–2013) and a core member of the FLOK Society Project in Ecuador (2013–2014). He is also a founding member of the Journal of Peer Production and a research associate of the P2P Foundation.
Maitrayee Deka is a Lecturer in Media and Social Theory at the Department of Sociology, University of Essex, UK. Her research focuses on economic sociology, new media, consumption cultures, and social theory. She is currently working on her monograph, Traders and Tinkers: The Popular Economy of the Bazaar that is based on an ethnographic account of Delhi’s electronic marketplaces. Her most recent publication is “Embodied Commons: Knowledge and Sharing in Delhi’s Electronic Bazaars,” The Sociological Review, 66(2), 365–380, 2018.
Wolfgang Drechsler is Professor of Governance at the Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, Honorary Professor at University College London in the Institute of Innovation and Public Purpose, UK, and Associate and member of the advisory board at Harvard University’s Davis Center, USA. In civil service, he has been Advisor to the President of Estonia, Executive Secretary with the German Wissenschaftsrat, and, as an APSA Congressional Fellow, Senior Legislative Analyst in the United States Congress. Wolfgang’s main interests are Public Management, Technology, and Innovation; Non‐Western Public Administration, Governance, and Economics (especially Buddhist, Confucian, and Islamic); and Public Management Reform generally.
Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay, PhD in law, has been an associate research professor at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) since 2010 and is the director of the Center for Internet and Society of CNRS (UPR 2000) which she co‐founded with Francesca Musiani in 2019. Her research focuses on digital commons, regulation by technology, information technology law and policy. She has co‐edited four open access collective books on the digital public domain and digital commons. She is a founding member and was the legal lead for Creative Commons France, a fellow at Science Commons, a staff member of Creative Commons Netherlands, a staff member of the Communia European Thematic Network, and a founding member of the Communia association for the digital public domain, which she represented at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) as the first chair of its administrative council. She was also member of the board and vice‐president of the scientific board of OpenEdition scientific publishing platform (2010–2019). [email protected]; @melanieddr
Adam Fish is an associate professor and Scientia fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, School of Arts and Media, at the University of New South Wales. He is a cultural anthropologist, documentary video producer, and interdisciplinary scholar who works across social science, computer engineering, environmental science, and the visual arts. Dr. Fish employs ethnographic, participatory, and creative methods to examine the social, political, and ecological influences of new technologies. He has authored three books including: Hacker States (2020 MIT Press with Luca Follis), about how state hacking impacts democracy; Technoliberalism (2017 Palgrave Macmillan), an ethnography of the politics of Internet and television convergence in Hollywood and Silicon Valley; and After the Internet (2017 Polity Press with Ramesh Srinivasan), which reimagines the Internet from the perspective of grassroots activists, citizens, and hackers on the margins of political and economic power. He is currently completing a book, Drone Justice, with MIT Press.
Jutta Haider is Professor of Information Studies at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås, and Reader in Information Studies at Lund University, both in Sweden. She holds a doctorate from City, University of London, UK (2008). Her research concerns information practices and infrastructures in relation to digital cultures’ conditions for production, use, and distribution of knowledge and information. This includes research on information inequalities and on knowledge institutions, such as encyclopedias, search engines, and the scholarly communication system. She is author of Invisible Search and Online Search Engines: The Ubiquity of Search in Everyday Life (Routledge, 2019).
Rebecca Karp is a PhD candidate at Boston University Questrom School of Business, Boston, USA. She is a field researcher who studies how firms and collectives learn, adapt, and upend their strategies for growth and sustained competitive advantage when confronted with how different market actors interact with their innovations. Her research specifically considers how innovators deploy resources to gain market acceptance, economic traction, and grow market relevancy for their innovations.
Vasilis Kostakis is the Professor of P2P Governance within the Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance at TalTech, Estonia. He is also a Faculty Associate within the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and a Visiting Professor within the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is the founder of the P2P Lab. In 2018, Vasilis was awarded a four‐year
