[p2p-research] P2P research

[Michel Bauwens]

rereading your letter here it is more specifically about p2p in material
production, so sorry for that misinterpretation

I think that here the bibliography compiled by Kevin Carson, for his
last/upcomingn and previous books, should be very very useful.

If you look his name on our blog, you'll see that Kevin has also engaged in
detailed with the arguments of p2p theory, using significant quotes etc...

Lewis Mumford is a good place to start I think; and Yochai Benkler, eric von
Hippel

Michel

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Thomas v. Loeffelholz <mail at colby.de>wrote:

> Hi Michel,
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> thank you for your efforts. I try to explain myself more detailed.
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> Since you're working at universities by yourself you're probably familiar
> that for every academic work it's necessary and useful to present an
> overview of the state of scholarship on a certain topic. That is what I'm
> looking for regarding to P2P.
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> I'm really interested to write my final paper about it, but yet I'm
> struggling with finding a worthful research question, and - an academic
> discourse to build upon.
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> I have the impression that very much is going about the topic of P2P - but
> finding scientific literature seems to be harder, especially academic
> literature about P2P outside "informatics".
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> I'll write my paper at the political science faculty and from most
> professors you only get raised eyebrows because they never heard of it
> (until you name "Wikipedia" of course).
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> I just came across your essay "Peer to Peer and Human Evolution" as well as
> the Research-Category on the P2P-Wiki which seems to be a good place to
> start.
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> As mentioned I'm still trying to find a good research question to write
> about.
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> My current (and somehow broad) hypothesis goes as follows: The development
> of technique, especially the Internet, gives us the possibility to organize
> our society and production in a more democratic, more participatory and more
> efficient way while using P2P principles.
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> For a master thesis it's of course a too big question to answer, so I have
> to cut it down somehow.
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> I'm still pretty new to the discourse (at least under the term "P2P"), but
> I have the impression that there's a lot of research to be done about (how
> you once called it) "injecting the digital sphere of p2p into the material
> sphere", with all the discussion of "scarcity and abundance" that one will
> come about.
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> Looking forward to your comments,
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> Best wishes,
> Thomas
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> Michael Bauwens wrote:
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>  hi thomas,
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> not sure what  you've seen but http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Design and
> http:/p2pfoundation.net/Category:Manufacturing are dedicated to these
> trends; I have companion tags at delicious http://del.icio.us/mbauwens,
> i.e. P2P-Design, P2P-Hardware, P2P-Manufacturing and similar archive
> sections on the blog
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> let's talk more in detail what you're looking for, I could also suggest
> particular research areas,
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> can you write to michelsub2004 via gmail instead?
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> *From:* Thomas v. Loeffelholz <mail at colby.de> <mail at colby.de>
> *To:* Michael Bauwens <michelsub2003 at yahoo.com> <michelsub2003 at yahoo.com>
> *Sent:* Wed, April 21, 2010 9:56:23 PM
> *Subject:* Re: Subscribe
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> Hi Michael,
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> Great, thanks for the reply.
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> I'd like to use the chance for a short question:
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> I'm just finishing my master's degree in Berlin and are currently looking
> for a topic for my master thesis about p2p / diy issues.
> Can you recommend any article which gives a good summary about the current
> state of scholarship on this topic?
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> I "only" found so far (though very helpful already) the reading lists on
> the p2p-foundation wiki.
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> Best Regards,
> Thomas
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> Thomas (in sear
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> Michael Bauwens wrote:
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> Hi Thomas, I no longer have a newsletter, but all the services here just below have their own feeds,
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> Michel
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