PhD Theses on Open Hardware

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Dr. Catarina Mota

Janauary 2015 - Bits, Atoms, and Information Sharing: New Opportunities for Participation - Catarina Mota, seminal thesis on Open Source Hardware - on Academia.edu. Dpwnload: File:Openhardwarephd Mota.pdf

Quotes

  • A democratization of the technosphere

promises to bring to the forefront challenges that firms and markets currently have no incentive to address.

  • By facilitating

some actions and not others, technologies help define the realm of options available to their users and, in this way, influence individual and collective behaviors. The configurations and affordances of technologies, in turn, are the result of intentional or unintentional choices made by those involved in their development. Therefore, the question of how and by whom these choices are made is of great importance to both individuals and societies.

  • By facilitating

some actions and not others, technologies help define the realm of options available to their users and, in this way, influence individual and collective behaviors. The configurations and affordances of technologies, in turn, are the result of intentional or unintentional choices made by those involved in their development. Therefore, the question of how and by whom these choices are made is of great importan

Peter Maxigas

  • September 2015 - Peer Production of Open Hardware - Peter Dunajcsik - [1]