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Can I read Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software and the Internet on EtoBox?
Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software and the Internet by Christopher M. Kelty is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software and the Internet about?
In Two Bits, Christopher M. Kelty investigates the history and cultural significance of Free Software, revealing the people and practices that have transformed not only software but also music, film, science, and education. Free Software is a set of practices devoted to the collaborative creation of software source code that is made openly and freely available through an unconventional use of copyright law. Kelty explains how these specific practices have reoriented the relations of power around the creation, dissemination, and authorization of all kinds of knowledge. He also makes an important contribution to discussions of public spheres and social imaginaries by demonstrating how Free Software is a “recursive public”—a public organized around the ability to build, modify, and maintain the very infrastructure that gives it life in the first place.Drawing on ethnographic research that took him from an Internet healthcare start-up company in Boston to media labs in Berlin to young entrepreneurs in Bangalore, Kelty describes the technologies and the moral vision that bind together hackers, geeks, lawyers, and other Free Software advocates. In each case, he shows how their practices
Who reads Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software and the Internet?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Christopher M. Kelty
- Publisher
- Duke University Press Books
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780822342649
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Fiction, Science, History
- Rating
- 3.59 / 5 (55 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
