The Playful Cleverness Reading List

This list of literature was initially born as a companion material to our article Playful Cleverness Revisited: Open-Source Game Development as a Method for Teaching Software Engineering. However, the list will probably be of interest to everyone studying hackers, hacker ethic and free/open-source software.

Books
Barnes, Peter: Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2006 http://www.onthecommons.org Benkler, Yochai: The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006 http://www.benkler.org/Benkler_Wealth_Of_Networks.pdf Himanen, Pekka: The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age. Random House Inc. New York, 2001. Kelty, Christopher: Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software. Duke University Press, 2008 Levy, Steven: Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution. New York, NY: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 2001. Lessig, Larry: Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. The Penguin Press 2004. http://www.free-culture.cc/freecontent/ Lessig, Larry: The Future of Ideas. Random House 2001. http://the-future-of-ideas.com Martin, Brian: Information Liberation: Challenging the Corruptions of Information Power. Freedom Press, London 1999. http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/98il/ Moody, Glyn: Rebel Code: Inside Linux and the Open Source Revolution. Perseus Publishing, Cambridge MA 2001 Stallman, Richard, M.. Free Software, Free Society. Ed. Joshua Gay. GNU Press 2002 Torvalds, Linus, Diamond, David: Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary. First Edition, Harper-Collins 2001 Wynants, Marleen, Cornelis, Jan. How Open is the Future? Economic, Social and Cultural Scenarios inspired by Free & Open-Source Software. CrossTalks, VUB Brussels University Press 2005. http://crosstalks.vub.ac.be/publications/Howopenisthefuture/howopenfuture_CROSSTALKSBOOK1.pdf

Articles and reports
Berners-Lee, Timothy: Net Neutrality: This is serious. 2006 http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/144 Himanen, Pekka:Challenges of the Global Information Society. report for the Committee for the Future in Parliament of Finland 2004. http://www.eduskunta.fi/efakta/vk/tuv/challenges_of_the_globalinformationsociety.pdf Moglen, Eben: ”Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright”. First Monday, Vol. 4, Issue 8, 1999. http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_8/moglen/index.html Raymond, Eric Steven: How to become a Hacker. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html SDForum: The Future of Commercial Open Source. Think Tank Summary Report 2006. http://lwn.net/images/pdf/OpenSourceThinkTank2006_FinalReport.pdf

Websites
Budapest Open Access Initiative. http://www.soros.org/openaccess/index.shtml Creative Commons. http://www.creativecommons.org Directory of Open Access Journals. http://www.doaj.org Electronic Frontier Foundation. http://www.eff.org Foundation for Free Internet Infrastructure. http://www.ffii.org Free Art License. http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en/ Free Culture. http://www.freeculture.org Free Software Foundation. http://www.fsf.org MIT OpenCourseWare. http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html Open Source Initiative. http://www.opensource.org Science Commons. http://science.creativecommons.org