“Don't Fear the Penguins”: Negotiating the Trans-local Space of Linux Development.
Part of a special issue on time, society, and the course of new technologies. Connecting two threads of work, on “virtual ethnography” and on the role of shared objects in maintaining social reality, the writer discusses how contradictory aspects of post/modernity are addressed by a collective of i...
| Publicado en: | Current Anthropology Vol. 46; no. 5; pp. 827 - 835 |
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University of Chicago Press
December 2005
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