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The First Interdisciplinary Research Workshop on Free Culture is a unique opportunity for scholars with various backgrounds, whose work contributes to the promotion or study of an emerging Free Culture, to present their research work to a multidisciplinary audience of academic peers and practitioners.

The focus of the workshop will be on the presentation and critique of work in progress, with the inclusion of both academic researchers and practitioners, so as to produce a holistic perspective on the future of a more participative, open and free information society.

All extended abstracts of these papers can be downloaded from the Commons Research Workshop wiki. Comments are enabled on this wiki site, so feedback is welcome. Take a look at the iSummit schedule to see more details on when and where these sessions will be held at the iSummit.

Session 1 will take a look at Perspectives on Free Culture with a range of presentations from Korea, Finland and the U.S.

Session 2 will look at Applications and Challenges of Free Cultural Practises, including papers from case studies from the open education, cultural heritage, peer production and intellectual property licensing disciplines.

The Online Communities and Social Networks event during session 3, will focus on enquiring into how communities behave and collaborate, with two of the papers looking at the Wikipedia and Flickr communities specifically.

Session 4 will see the workshop participants ease out of their chairs to participate in the speedgeeking and poster session, which will be an "open and free bazaar of ideas - anyone can present anything relating to the themes of the research workshop." The posters that have been accepted for this session can be viewed at the Commons Research wiki, here.

Session 5 has been divided into two smaller session of two papers each. The first session will look at the theme 'Quantifying the Digital Commons' and after a ten minute break, the next session will take a more local focus on Perspectives on Freedom and the Commons in East Asia.

The final session will provide some time for reflection on the workshop, along with an open discussion on developing a Research and Action Agenda for Free Culture

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