Disputation i medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap
Reinhard Handler försvarar sin doktorsavhandling i medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, "Colliberate: The practices of free and open source software"
Doktorsavhandling Handler 2022:15
Nedan följer en kort beskrivning av innehållet (ur baksidestexten):
“Many people use an office suite every day. All those documents, spreadsheets and presentations are boring, right? This dissertation begs to differ. It stresses that we need to know more about software, a technology that has become the de facto infrastructure for everyday life. Colliberate is a study of LibreOffice, an office suite that you can download, use, share, modify and redistribute freely. It highlights the diversity and richness of ideas and intentions amongst the people who build and maintain it. It shows how volunteers and entrepreneurs collaborate in a new form of teamwork. It embraces the ample forms of negotiations and discussions that go into the development of an office suite. By focusing on the practices that are deployed to keep the project sustainable, this dissertation zooms in on a complex interplay of different ethical ideas, technical skills, and governance mechanisms that together form a software project.”
Händelsen är öppen för allmänheten.
Medverkande
- Paula Bialski, opponent, associate professor, University of St Gallen
- Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, betygsnämnd, professor, Malmö universitet
- Jörgen Rahm-Skågeby, betygsnämnd, docent, Stockholms universitet
- Tobias Pulls, betygsnämnd, docent, Karlstads universitet
Upplysningar
- Åsa Nilsson
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