This ground-breaking text offers a fresh perspective on the governance of science from the standpoint of social and political theory. Science has often been seen as the only institution that embodies the elusive democratic ideal of the 'open society'.

Intellectual Property Rights in the Global Economy

Thanks @franc00018

The Growth of Intellectual Property:
A History of the Ownership of Ideas in the United States

The Politics of Piracy: Intellectual Property in Contemporary China

Why Hackers Do What They Do: Understanding Motivation and Effort in Free/Open Source Software Projects1

Internet Censorship Around the World

Refer to Chapter 9: Online Journalism and Political Transformation in the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions

Participatory culture, social media, and the Arab Spring.

Exploring Digital Identity: Beyond the Private Public Paradox. A great article that explores how new media is transforming culture and how we identify ourselves online. The article uses a metaphor called digiSelves to describe how we are also creating a new identity too.

This report is skeptical and hard-nosed, challenging some of the optimism which has fueled previous work in the Digital Media and Literacy tradition, raising concerns about what is happening to those who are being excluded from meaningful participation.

This article relates to Module 1 and the lack of online privacy that we have with the increase of social media. This also affects intellectual property, and nothing is ever concealed or anonymous.