Free Software, the Internet, and Global Communities of Resistance

by Sara Schoonmaker

This book explores software's pivotal role as the code that powers computers, mobile devices, the Internet, and social media. Creating conditions for the ongoing development and use of software, including the Internet as a communications infrastructure, is one of the most compelling issues of our time. Free software is based upon open source code, developed in peer communities as well as corporate settings, challenging the dominance of proprietary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138942987
• ISBN13: 9781138942981
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"