Table of Contents

Collectivity and Power on the Internet. An Introduction.- Masses, Crowds, Communities, Movements: Collective Action in the Internet Age.- Social Movements and the Internet: The Sociotechnical Constitution of Collective Action.- Open Source Communities: The Sociotechnical Institutionalization of Collective Invention.- Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft: Market Concentration – Competition – Innovation Strategies.

About the Author

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Dolata is Professor of Organizational Sociology and Innovation Studies at the University of Stuttgart (Germany).

Dr. Jan-Felix Schrape is Senior Researcher at the Department of Organizational Sociology and Innovation Studies, University of Stuttgart (Germany).