Emerging Patterns of Intersection and Segmentation when Computerization Movements Interact

Kling and Iacono introduced and investigated computerization movements, counter computerization movements, and computerization organizations in a series of papers starting in the late 1980’s. Their analyses focus on characterizing structural properties, ideologies, and consequences of computerization movements and organizations. This paper starts from their foundations to investigate a set of three new computerization movements: open source software development, computer games, and grid computing. I focus attention on examining not only structural properties, ideologies, and consequences of these three computerization movements and associated organizations, but also on structural processes that characterize what happens when computerization movements come together, and consequences that emerge as a result of these intersecting movements. This focus on identifying emerging patterns of intersecting computerization movements, as well as the segmenting of these computerization movements is the principal contribution of this chapter.