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Scholarly literature on 'open source'

Gabriella Coleman, Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking (Princeon University Press, 2012).

Chris Kelty, Two Bits: The Cultural Significane of Free Software (Duke University Press, 2008).

Kelty, Christopher. 2004. “Culture’s Open Sources: Software, Copyright, and Cultural Critique”. Anthropological Quarterly 77(3):499-506
Golub, Alex 2004 “ Copyright and Taboo.” Anthropological Quarterly 77(3).
Stewart, Daniel 2005 “Social Status in an Open-Source Community” American Sociological Review 70(5):823-842

Journalism on 'open source'

On open source ecology: Emily Eakin, The Civilization Kit (New Yorker, 23 Dec 2013)

Critiques of the politics of 'makers': Evgeny Morozov, Making It (The New Yorker, 13 Jan 2014).

 Wikipedia 'open source' entry

Feminist critique of open source: Open source feminism

Examples of lab ethnographies

Sharon Traweek, Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physics (Harvard Univerity Press, 1988)

Elizabeth Roberts, God's Laboratory: Assisted Reproduction in the Andes (University of California Press, 2012).

Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life: The Social Construction of Scientific Facts (Sage Publications, 1979)

On the longer history of making/tinkering

Carolyn Marvin, When old technologies were new (Oxford University Press, 1988)

Graeme Gooday, Domesticating electricity: technology, uncertainty and gender 1880-1914 (Pickering and Chatto, 2008)

Ruth Schwarz Cohen, How the refigerator got its hum (1985)

Alfred Sohn Rethel, The ideal of the broken down (Ideal des Kaputten) (republished 1990) on Neapolitan technology

Kathleen Franz, Tinkering (Pennsylvania, 2005) on using motor cars as generators

http://www.cehic.es/jpg/cracked.pdf

What is STS (science and technology studies) ?

Makers and Hackers in India

http://makerfest.com/