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The Wealth Of Networks : How Social Production Transforms Markets And Freedom

Attribution
Yochai Benkler
Publication Details
Book, Yale University Press, 2006
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(LOWER LEVEL) HM851 .B457 2006 AVAILABLE
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In this comprehensive social theory of the Internet and the networked information economy, Benkler describes how patterns of information, knowledge, and cultural production are changing?and shows that the way information and knowledge are made available can either limit or enlarge the ways people can create and express themselves. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
Author
- Benkler, Yochai
Subject
Contents
- Introduction: a moment of opportunity and challenge
- The networked information economy
- Some basic economics of information production and innovation
- Peer production and sharing
- The economics of social production
- The political economy of property and commons
- Individual freedom: autonomy, information, and law
- Political freedom part 1: the trouble with mass media
- Political freedom part 2: emergence of the networked public sphere - - Cultural freedom: a culture both plastic and critical
- Justice and development
- Social ties: networking together
- Policies of freedom at a moment of transformation
- The battle over the institutional ecology of the digital environment
- Conclusion: the stakes of information law and policy
ISBN
- 0300110561
- 9780300110562
LCCN
- 2005028316
Open Library ID
- /b/OL3412222M