Technology for intelligence and freedom: a history about the GNU Project and the defense of free knowledge in the context of digital technologies

• Grant number: 11/02941-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: August 01, 2011
• End date: July 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Science
• Principal Investigator: Francisco Assis de Queiroz
• Grantee: Aracele Lima Torres
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This work aims to historicize the contemporary debate of digital technologies as technologies of collective intelligence and freedom, analyzing the implications of the emergence of these in production and distribution of knowledge. To do so, takes as a case study the GNU (GNU's Not Unix) project, that comes into this debate by advocating for free software and free knowledge as a whole. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

TORRES, Aracele Lima. The technoutopia of free software: a history of the GNU\'s technical and political project. 2014. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.