[ecrea] New book: Biohackers. The Politics of Open Science

"Biohackers. The Politics of Open Science" is out
> http://www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745332802
>
> It has been released under a CC license and will soon be available online
>
> "Biohackers explores fundamental changes occuring in the circulation 
> and ownership of scientific information. Alessandro Delfanti argues 
> that the combination of the ethos of 20th century science, the hacker 
> movement and the free software movement is producing an open science 
> culture which redefines the relationship between researchers, 
> scientific institutions and commercial companies. Biohackers looks at 
> the emergence of the citizen biology community ‘DIYbio’, the shift to 
> open access by the American biologist Craig Venter and the rebellion 
> of the Italian virologist Ilaria Capua against WHO data-sharing 
> policies. Delfanti argues that these biologists and many others are 
> involved in a transformation of both life sciences and information 
> systems, using open access tools and claiming independence from both 
> academic and corporate institutions."


----------------
ECREA-Mailing list
----------------
This mailing list is a free service from ECREA.
---
To unsubscribe, please visit http://www.ecrea.eu/mailinglist
---
ECREA - European Communication Research and Education Association
Postal address:
ECREA
Universit�ibre de Bruxelles
c/o Dept. of Information and Communication Sciences
CP123, avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, b-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
Email: (info /at/ ecrea.eu)
URL: http://www.ecrea.eu
----------------