Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I
1. The Autonomy Imperative
2. The Distribution of Charisma
3. The Tyranny of Structure
4. The Grammar of Justice
PART II
5. The Last Online Tribe: primitivism.com
6. The Primary War: dailykos.com
7. The Imperfect Committee: debian.org
8. The Great Sock Hunt: wikipedia.org
9. Online Tribal Bureaucracy
Notes
Index

About the Author

Mathieu O'Neil is Adjunct Research Fellow at the Australian National University in the Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, and Principal Researcher at Australia's Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. He has contributed articles to Le Monde Diplomatique and is the author of Cyberchiefs (Pluto, 2009).

Reviews

'Going against all easy celebrations of an Internet culture without authority or power structures, Cyberchiefs offers an important and relevant account of the innovations in forms of authority expressed by the social dynamics of Internet group formations.' Tiziana Terranova, associate professor of Sociology of Communications and Cultural Studies at the University of Naples 'L'Orientale'and author of Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age (Pluto Press, 2004).