Hacking Weber: legitimacy, critique, and trust in peer production

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 872-888

  O'Neil, Mathieu ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

authority; counter culture; critique; crowdsourcing; online communities; peer production

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901239665     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2013.850525     Document Type: Article

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