So far, I have gathered and read the following resources to support my research. This list is a work in progress;
titles will be added in the course of the following months, as I read more books and articles on related topics.
Again, suggestions are welcome: please contact me through e-mail (see contact info).

• Barabási, Albert-László, Linked; How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for
  Business, Science, and Everyday Life, MIT Press Cambridge, 2003
  
  
• Bärwolff, Matthias; Gehring, Robert (et al.), Open Source Jahrbuch 2005; Zwischen Softwareentwicklung
  und Gesellschaftsmodell, Lehmanns Media, Berlin, 2005
  
  
• Mul, J. de, Cyberspace Odyssee, Klement Kampen, 2nd edition, 2003
  
  
• Lister, M., et. al., New Media: A Critical Introduction, Routledge New York, 2003
  
  
• Cock Buning, M. de, Auteursrecht en Informatietechnologie; Over de Beperkte Houdbaarheid van de
  Technologiespecifieke Regelgeving, Otto Cramwinckel Uitgever Amsterdam, 1998
  
  
• Horkheimer, Max and Theodor Adorno Dialectic of Enlightenment, "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment
  as Mass Deception", Trans. John Cumming, Continuum, New York, 1972
  
  
• Mul, J. de, Filosofie in Cyberspace; Reflecties op de Informatie- en Communicatietechnologie, Klement
  Kampen, 2002
  
  
• Liang, L., Guide to Open Content Licences, Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam, 2004
  
  
• Lessig, L., Open Culture; How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and
  Control Creativity, The Penguin Press New York, 2004
  
  
• Latour, B., Science in Action; How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society, Harvard
  University Press London, 1988
  
  

• Adorno, T.W. and Simpson, G., On Popular Music, Originally published in Philosophy and Social
  Science, Institute of Social Research, New York, 1941 (IX, 17-48)
  
  
• Beer, D., Reflecting on the Digit(al)isation of Music, as published on Firstmonday.org, Volume 10,
  Number 2, February 2005
  
  
• Benkler, Y., Freedom in the Commons: Towards A Political Economy of Information, as published online
  in Duke Law Journal, 2003
  
  
• Castells, M., Materials for an Exploratory Theory of the Network Society, August 1999
  
  
• Cave, D., File Sharing; Innocent Until Proven Guilty, as published on Salon E-zine, 2002
  
  
• Chon, M., New Wine Bursting from Old Bottles: Collaborative Internet Art, Joint Works, and Entrepreneurship,
  University of Oregon, 1996
  
  
• Duncan, N.B. and Fox, M.A., Computer-aided Music Distribution: The Future of Selection, Retrieval
  and Transmission, as published on Firstmonday.org, Volume 10, Number 4, April 2005
  
  
• Ebare, S., Digital Music and Subculture: Sharing Files, Sharing Styles, as published on Firstmonday.org,
  Volume 9, Number 2, February 2004
  
  
• Engelen, S., A Walk Through the Music Bazaar - Reflections on the Future of Music (from the book
  How Open is the Future? Economic, Social & Cultural Scenarios Inspired by Free & Open-Source
  Software by Marleen Wynants and Jan Cornelis, VUB Press Brussels, 2005)
  
  
• Enzensberger, H.M., Constituents of a Theory of the Media, as published on Religion-Online.org,
  date unknown
  
  
• Geist, M., Piercing the Peer-to-Peer Myths: An Examination of the Canadian Experience, 2005
  
  
• Hellweg, E., Is 'Fair Use' in Peril?, as published on TechnologyReview.com, November 2004
  
  
• Howard-Spink, S., Grey Tuesday, Online Cultural Activism and the Mash-up of Music and Politics, as
  published on Firstmonday.org, Volume 9, Number 10, October 2004
  
  
• Hanappe, P., Building Open Ecosystems for Collaborative Creativity (from the book How Open is the
  Future? Economic, Social & Cultural Scenarios Inspired by Free & Open-Source Software, by Marleen
  Wynants and Jan Cornelis, VUB Press Brussels, 2005)
  
  
• Ippolito, J., Why Art Should Be Free, as published on the author's website. It was originally published
  on Rhizome.org in April 2002
  
  
• Ito, J., Identity and Privacy in a Globalized Community, in "Unplugged; Art as the Scene of Global
  Conflicts", Ars Electronica 2002, Linz
  
  
• Jenkins, H., Welcome to Convergence Culture, as published on Vodafone Receiver platform
  (www.receiver.vodafone.com), 2004
  
  
• Kluitenberg, E., Constructing the Digital Commons; A Venture Into Hybridisation, in "Acoustic Space;
  Media Architecture", The Center for New Media Culture RIXC, Riga, 2003
  
  
• Kretschmer, M., Artists' Earnings and Copyright; A Review of British and German Music Industry Data
  in the Context of Digital Technologies, as published on Firstmonday.org, Volume 10, Number 1,
  January 2005
  
  
• Lessig, L., The People Own Ideas!, as published on TechnologyReview.com, June 2005
  
  
• Litman, J., Sharing and Stealing, Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal, Vol. 27,
  2004
  
  
• Mairéad, M., et. al., Federated Digital Rights Management: A Proposed DRM Solution for Research
  and Education, as published in D-Lib Magazine [vol.8, number 7/8], July/August 2002
  
  
• Meyrowitz, J., Global Nomads in the Digital Veldt, in: "Mobile Democracy: Essays on Society, Self and
  Politics" edited by Kristof Nyiri, Vienna, 2003
  
  
• Medosch, A., Not Just Another Wireless Utopia: Developing the Social Protocols for Free Networking, 2003
  
  
• O'Connor, W.B., Create or be Created: How the Internet Cultural Renaissance is Turning Audience
  Members into Artists, as published on Firstmonday.org, Volume 2, Number 10, 1997
  
  
• Pitkänen, O. and Välimäki, M., Towards A Digital Rights Management Framework, published in the
  proceedings of Innovation Through Electronic Commerce, 3rd International Conference, IEC2000,
  United Kingdom, 2000
  
  
• Raymond, E.S., The Cathedral and the Bazaar, as published on Firstmonday.org, Volume 3, Number 3,
  February 1998
  
  
• Reinwarth, M., Netzklang - Netaudio und Netlabels, as published on Moderne Klangkunst; Magazin für
  elektronische Musik und Lyrik, 2004
  
  
• Samuelson, P., The Copyright Grab, as published on Wired, January 1996
  
  
• Schäfer, M.T., Spielen jenseits der Gebrauchsanweisung; Partizipation als Output des Konsums
  software-basierter Produkte, 2005
  
  
• Schrage, M., Embrace File-sharing, or Die, 2003
  
  
• Wischenbart, R., The Paradoxes of Culture as a Market, in "Unplugged; Art as the Scene of Global
  Conflicts", Ars Electronica Linz, 2002
  
  
• http://www.world-information.org, Architectures of Control; Containment and Information, in "Acoustic Space;
  Media Architecture", The Center for New Media Culture RIXC, Riga, 2003
  
  
• http://www.economist.com, Music's Brighter Future, from The Economist Print Edition online, October 2004