Book Launch - Cyber Chiefs: Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes - Friday 26 June (5.30pm)
The Co-op Bookshop invites you to the launch of:
Cyber Chiefs: Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes
by Dr Mathieu O’Neil, Adjunct Research Fellow, Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, The Australian National University & Université Grenoble 3 - Stendhal
Dr O'Neil's book is to be launched by Professor Peter McDonald, Director, Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, The Australian National University & Dr Catherine Summerhayes, School of Humanities and School of Art, The Australian National University.
WHERE: The Co-op Bookshop, Union Court, ANU
WHEN: Friday 26 June 2000, 5.30pm for 6.00pm
Light refreshments will be served and a 15% discount will be offered on the night.
RSVP: dkay@coop-bookshop.com.au
Published by Pluto Press / Palgrave Macmillan
About the Book
People are inventing new ways of working together on the internet. Decentralized production thrives on weblogs, wikis and free software projects. In Cyberchiefs, Mathieu O’Neil focuses on the regulation of these working relationships. He examines the transformation of leadership and expertise in online networks, and the emergence of innovative forms of participatory politics. What are the costs and benefits of alternatives to hierarchical organization? Using case studies of online projects or “tribes” such as the radical Primitivism archive, the Daily Kos political blog, the Debian free software project and Wikipedia, O’Neil shows that leaders must support maximum autonomy for participants and analyses the tensions generated by this distribution of authority.
About the Author
Mathieu O’Neil is Adjunct Research Fellow at the Australian National University in the Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, and Lecturer in American Studies at the Université Grenoble 3 - Stendhal. He recently worked as Principal Researcher at Australia’s Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, regularly writes for Le Monde diplomatique and has curated international digital art exhibitions.