IV Congress of CiberSociety 2009. Analog crisis, digital future

Topic C - PoliTICs

Work Team C-25: Free technological developments

Communications

Initial questions

How do technological tools build subjectivity?



Which free technological developments suppose a current alternative to privative channels or tools? Beyond technical aspects, how do they differentiated from another?



To what extent does the development paradigm of free software impregnate other organizational fields?

Work Group description

On one hand, the current maturity of ways of software production free seems to impregnate organizational and philosophies several fields of online operation and relationship: companies, learning models, social movements. For another, technologies as control mechanisms are not exempt from ideology or intentionality, conditioning the way in which interact and even see the Website.



In a moment in which are confirmed several free alternatives specific to owner information systems, this working group's objective would be triple: inventorying, comparing and to analyze both the specific tools and the shared philosophies that is after free technological developments.