"Anthropologist Christopher Kelty, who specializes in science and technology studies, has now announced the release of the online version of his scholarly book about the Free Software movement, Two Bits!

"So I have an announcement: I have written, and published, A Book [...] Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software ..." -- From the book description: "Drawing on ethnographic research that took him from an Internet c start-up company in Boston to media labs in Berlin to young entrepreneurs in Bangalore, Kelty describes the technologies and the moral vision that binds together hackers, ge

"HASTAC is very proud to have helped to sponsor and support Christopher M. Kelty's important new book TWO BITS: THE CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE OF FREE SOFTWARE [...] So what is TWO BITS about?

"...Christopher M. Kelty investigates the history and cultural significance of Free Software, revealing the people and practices that have transformed not only software, but also music, film, science, and education..." -- via http://twobits.net/

"...As a sort of “proof of concept” of Ariely’s claim, I was interested in the experiment in a new kind of 'hybrid' publishing going on with a recent book by Rice University professor Chris Kelty.«Two Bits: the Cultural Significance of Free Software» is published by Duke University Press (you can buy a copy here), but is also available online on this author-maintained website, twobits.net.

"Geert Lovink interviews Christopher Kely on the issues covered by his book Two Bits, before Kelty’s joining of the UCLA staff in August 2008. This is a really grand interview that poses all the right questions and issues, and I may engage with it further in the future, but here is just the text of the interview itself..." --

"...I started Remixtures in the beginning of October 2006, a few months after I finished my master’s thesis about online activism and the (re)appropriation of technology for social goals.

"Not only is the free software movement a source of software and licenses, it is also a source of inspiration. In particular, free software has been cited by many in the nascent free culture movement as an explicit source of inspiration and point of departure.

"A first book has been published by the SELF Project. Introduction to Free Software has been produced together with the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) with a number of recognised authors on the subjects of Free Software.