“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...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Current Anthropology Vol. 46; no. 5; pp. 827 - 835
Main Author: Ratto, Matt
Format: Article
Published: University of Chicago Press December 2005
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost