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Preliminary class business
- Handout: Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith, The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization (1994), pp. 1-8, 15-19
1. Glossary, object, and bibliography work for the wiki
Glossary
Objects
Bibliography
- Use bibliography style for citations. See:
- MLA Style Bibliographic Citation Guide (Library @ Seattle Central)
- Guide to Evaluating and Citing Online Resources
- Sample references to the bibliography: (Boyle, 2005), (Strathern, 2005)
2. Thinking Collaboration
Non-monetary context:
- [Collaborative drawing exercise (cf., Marilyn Strathern, "Imagined Collectivities and Multiple Authorship," p. 21 g]
- Patchwork quilts
- Crazy quilts
- AIDS Quilt
- Quilting bee
- What makes such a collaborative system "go"? (Why do you as an individual pitch in; what do you get out of it? What does the community get out of it?)
- (Strathern, pp. 14-15 a,b) What makes this New Ireland (Papau New Guinea) collaborative system "go"? (Why put shell money at the base of the Malanggan; what does that give you?)
- Strathern, p. 18,d, e
- Strathern, p. 21, f
- Strathern, p.16, c
- Wikipedia (e.g., article on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source "Open Source") What makes open source systems "go"?
- Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, "Cooking-Pot Markets and Balanced Value Flows," p. 154
- James Boyle, "Fencing Off Ideas: Enclosure and the Disappearance of the Public Domain," p. 241
Monetary context:
- Christopher Kelty, "Trust Among the Algorithms: Ownership, Identity, and the Collaborative Stewardship of Information," pp. 131-32 a, b
- What happens when we monetize, and propertize, collaboration?
- Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith, The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization, pp. 18-19
- Why does business today like "teams"?
