Cyberchiefs : Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I -- 1. The Autonomy Imperative -- Anarchism and the Global Network of Struggles -- Self-realisation in the Digital Commons -- Theories of Online Autonomy -- The Internet Ideology and Informational Capitalism -- Epistemic Tribal Projects -- 2. The Distribution of Charisma -- Sticking it to The Virtual Man -- Hacking Weber -- Chiefs Without Authority -- Distributed Production -- Toadings in the Early Social Net -- The Reputation Economy -- 3. The Tyranny of Structure -- Power Laws -- The Impact of Search -- The Persistence of Archaic Force -- Field Logic: Bourdieu -- Gendering the Online Abject -- 4. The Grammar of Justice -- Criticality and Justification -- Legal Autonomy and Sovereign Authority -- Norm Enforcement: Netiquette and Wizocracy -- Tracking Authority in Four Online Tribes -- Part II -- 5. The Last Online Trive: primitivism.com -- Project: Web 0.0 -- Authority: The One Inside -- Conflict: The Bookchin Brouhaha -- Radical Dissent and the Net -- 6. The Primary War: dailykos.com -- Project: The Democratic Noise Machine -- Authority: Drinking From a Fire Hose -- Conflict: The Alegre Affair -- 7. The Imperfect Committee: debian.org -- Project: The Universal Operating System -- Authority: A Bazaar of Cathedrals -- Conflict: the SL Saga -- 8. The Great Sock Hunt: wikipedia.org -- Project: Expert Texpert Choking Smokers -- Authority: The Cabal -- Conflict: The Durova Dust-up -- 9. Online Tribal Bureaucracy -- Organisation Without Domination -- Costs and Benefi ts -- The Role of Conflict -- The Political Economy of Online Tribalism -- Notes -- Index.

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