The Remixing Dilemma: The Trade-Off Between Generativity and Originality

American Behavioral Scientist

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 643-663

  Hill, Benjamin Mako ^a,b   Monroy Hernández, Andrés ^a,b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

creativity; online community; peer production; remixing; scratch

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876179601     PISSN: 00027642     EISSN: 15523381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002764212469359     Document Type: Article

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