Massively Collaborative Peer Production (MCPP)

Definition

Websites (and the software that runs them) where the site

• allows users to directly add information to the website
• supports from 10,000 to 1,000,000 or more user/authors
• is designed to produce quality information

Web-enabled - not possible without wide web access

Quality control/assessment difficult

References

• Yochai Benkler's work on Commons Based Peer Production in Coase's Penguin,or Linux and the Nature of the Firm, 112 Yale Law Journal 369 (2002)
• Prof. Lawrence Lessig's work on Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace