【Peer Participation and Software】
This report was made possible by the grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in connection with its grant-making initiative on Digital Media and Learning. For more information on the initiative visit http：//www.macfound.org.
【The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning】
Peer Participation and Software： What Mozilla Has to Teach Government by David R. Booth
The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age by Cathy N. Davidson and David Theo Goldberg with the assistance of Zo? Marie Jones
The Future of Thinking： Learning Institutions in a Digital Age by Cathy N. Davidson and David Theo Goldberg with the assistance of Zo? Marie Jones
New Digital Media and Learning as an Emerging Area and "Worked Examples" as One Way Forward by James Paul Gee
Living and Learning with New Media： Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project by Mizuko Ito， Heather Horst， Matteo Bittanti， danah boyd， Becky Herr—Stephenson， Patricia G. Lange， C. J. Pascoe， and Laura Robinson with Sonja Baumer， Rachel Cody， Dilan Mahendran， Katynka Z. Martínez， Dan Perkel， Christo Sims， and Lisa Tripp
Young People， Ethics， and the New Digital Media： A Synthesis from the GoodPlay Project by Carrie James with Katie Davis， Andrea Flores， John M. Francis， Lindsay Pettingill， Margaret Rundle， and Howard Gardner
Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture： Media Education for the 21st Century by Henry Jenkins (P.I.) with Ravi Purushotma， Margaret Weigel， Katie Clinton， and Alice J. Robison
The Civic Potential of Video Games by Joseph Kahne， Ellen Middaugh， and Chris Evans
【Peer Participation and Software】
What Mozilla Has to Teach Government
by David R. Booth
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Booth， David， 1945—
Peer participation and software ： what Mozilla has to teach government / David R. Booth.
p. cm.—(The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978—0—262—51461—3 (pbk. ： alk. paper)
1. Computer software—Development—Social aspects. 2. Digital media—Social aspects. 3. Netscape Mozilla. I. Title.
QA76.76.D47B67 2010
302.23'1—dc22 2009042932
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