contact?
preferred: jjpeters[at]usc[dot]edu
office: 213.740.9646
fax: 213.740.0056.

curriculum vitae : jake_peters_cv.pdf

dissertation blog : disserter 2010

research interests :
free/open-source software, cyborgs, theories of social space, construction of race, politics of consumption, science fiction, water politics, utopias, pervasive computing, sound, marxist thought, gender and performance, and urban planning histories. whew.

dissertation?
i'm working on a project on free/open sourc software (f/oss) that explores the labor process of Ubuntu GNU/Linux by asking how fun matters in f/oss, commons and gift economies. its also about how computer code mediates our lives, how economic imaginations take form, how the social production of difference relates to divisions of labor and probably a bunch of other things once it takes form and i do my field work. i'm working with the Ubuntu California LoCo team, going to f/oss conventions and hopefully visiting Ubuntu's corporate offices.

me in third person blurb form :
jake hails from the middle of nowhere (northern Minnesota) and his lifelong fascination with cities eventually brought him to Los Angeles. he made up his own degree (BA) at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and called it "Theories of Space, Gender and Politics." after spending an extra year struggling through researching and writing his honors thesis about coffee shops and politics in the Inland Empire (Claremont, CA), jake took some time away from academia working in movie theaters and libraries in San Diego while learning to surf. he likes to ride his bike the city, is a big geek who enjoys building computers and furniture and feels more comfortable on skis than on foot.