Are you a teenage boy/downloading fiend worried about stereotypical portrayals of your media habits? We can at least partly alleviate your concerns. It’s not all teenage boys. We find no significant gender differences in participation in copy culture (using our broadest definitions). Continue reading “Male Copiers are from Mars. Female Copiers are also from Mars”
We’re kicking off our Copy Culture in the US and Germany pre-release festivities with a fresh(ish) look at an old question: is unauthorized file sharing wrong? Or more properly: do Americans think it’s wrong? Continue reading “Unauthorized File Sharing: Is It Wrong?”
The LiMux project–Linux in Munich–is approaching the finish line. LiMux was the largest municipal open-source adoption project in the world when it began in 2003, and was widely viewed as a test case for public-sector adoption. But the path proved difficult–the original 5-year transition became 8 (and counting). Now, some 9000 of the city’s 12-15,000 desktops run Linux, with the remainder scheduled for migration in 2012. Continue reading “Learning from LiMux”