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Exploring the Determinants of Global 'Social Production' of Information and Knowledge: Insights from SETI@home

Commons-based peer production is an activity that is emerging as a distinct mode of resource allocation and production of information, knowledge and culture ('social production' for short), potentially heralding a new stage in the development of information/knowledge-based economies. This paper presents a cross-country analysis of factors determining the information and knowledge output of the paradigmatic social production project, i.e. SETI@home. The main hypothesis explored is that the level of average subjective well-being in a country is a motivational proxy variable that can help explain the cross-country variation in SETI@home output levels. The hypothesis that trust might be of lesser importance is also explored. I find support for both hypotheses, but only for developed and advanced countries, not poor countries.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/183276
CreatorsEngelbrecht, Hans-Juergen
PublisherMassey University.
Source SetsAustraliasian Digital Theses Program
Detected LanguageEnglish

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