[Air-L] Good/recent undergrad reading on Online Cooperation

[Joseph Reagle]

Kollock's (1999) "The Economies Of Online Cooperation: Gifts And Public Goods In Cyberspace" [1] was great because it distinguished between some theoretic concepts (gifts, public goods, digital goods) and touched on motivations and limits. It is, also, very old---not many students know what Usenet and The WELL are.

Any suggestions for a similar, high level, overview of the why, how, and limits to online cooperation? (There's tons of literature on all those topics of course, but I'm struggling to find something pithy, comprehensive, and current.)

Thanks for any suggestions!


[1]: http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/dlc/bitstream/handle/10535/3824/Working_Draft.pdf?sequence=1