Resources

Research resources

Here are reports and academic articles that get into the consumer and societal issues around 3D printing. The first set links to two white papers we wrote on 3D printing that you can download. Second, are a few articles freely available that we think are pretty great. Third, are academic pieces written by us using more academic language. Fourth, are a set of academic articles we found interesting, written by scholars who were not involved with our project, but you might find them interesting too.

3DPrintingInfo.org White Papers

• 3D Printing Rights & Responsibilities: Consumer perceptions & realities – Emerging issues for online access, communication & sharing of 3D printer files.

• 3D Printing: Civic Practices and Regulatory Challenges. (MNSI – April 2016)

Academic Papers from the 3D Printing Info team

• Birtchnell, T., Urry, J., Cook, C., & Curry, A. (2013). Freight miles: the impact of 3D printing on transport and society ESRC Project ES/J007455/1: Centre for Mobilities Research
• Fordyce, R., L. Heemsbergen, T. Apperley, T. Birtchnell, M. Arnold, & B. Nansen (2016) ‘Things, Tags, Topics’ Communication Research and Practice 2(2).
• Fordyce, R., L. Heemsbergen, P. Mignone, & B. Nansen (2015) ‘3D printing and university makerspaces: Surveying countercultural communities in institutional settings’ Digital Culture and Education 7(2).
• Fordyce, R. (2014) ‘Manufacturing Imaginaries: Neo-nazis, Men’s Rights Activists, and 3D printing’ Journal of Peer Production 6 (1).
• 3D Printers mean more plastic in landfills, Luke Heemsbergen, New York Times, August 11 2014

Other Academic Articles

• Daly, A. (2016) Socio-Legal Aspects of the 3D Printing Revolution. Pivot PalgraveMacmillan. [https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137515551]
• Good, T. (2013) Three Makerspace models that work. American Libraries 44(1), 45-47.
• Illich, I. (1971) Deschooling Society.  New York: Harper & Row.
• Kostakis, V., Niaros, V. and Giotitsas, C. (2014) Production and governance in  hackerspaces: A manifestation of Commons-based peer production in the physical  realm? International Journal of Cultural Studies. Advance online publication. DOI:  10.1177/1367877913519310.
• Maxigas (2012) “Hacklabs and hackerspaces – tracing two genealogies” Journal of Peer  Production 2.
• Moilanen, J. and Vadén, T. (2013) 3D printing community and emerging practices of  peer production. First Monday18(8).
• Moilanen, J. and Vadén, T. (2013) “Results from 3D printing survey 2013.”  Peerproduction.Net
• Ratto, M. (2011) Critical Making: Conceptual and Material Studies in Technology and  Social Life. The Information Society 27(4), 252-260.
• Ratto, M., & Ree, R. (2012). Materializing information: 3D printing and social change.  First Monday, 17(7).
• Söderberg, Johan (2014) “Reproducing Wealth Without Money, One 3D printer at a Time” Journal of Peer Production 4 [http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-4-value-and-currency/peer-reviewed-articles/reproducing-wealth-without-money/].
• Tocchetti, Sara (2012) “DIYbiologists as ‘makers’ of Personal Biologies: How MAKE Magazine and Maker Faires Contribute in Constituting Biology as a Personal Technology” Journal of Peer Production 2 [http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-2/peer-reviewed-papers/diybiologists-as-makers/]

Media resources

If you want to find tech websites with up to date news from the 3D printing industry or websites to help you purchase a 3D printer, you’ll find the right resource for your needs below. We cover 3D printing in the popular media, including tech sites and social media, as well as other sources about the social economic, and political aspects of 3D printing through longer form journalism. Although we don’t update these links frequently, the tags we’ve coded into them will bring you new stories as they’re written.

3D Printing in the Media

Other 3D Printing information