The Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler

The Battle Over the Institutional Ecology of the Digital Environmentġ2. Policies of Freedom at a Moment of Transformationġ1.

Cultural Freedom: A Culture Both Plastic and Critical Political Freedom Part 2: Emergence of the Networked Public SphereĨ. Political Freedom Part 1: The Trouble with Mass Mediaħ. The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom is a book by Harvard Law School professor Yochai Benkler published by Yale. Individual Freedom: Autonomy, Information, and LawĦ. The Political Economy of Property and Commonsĥ. He describes the range of legal and policy choices that confront us and maintains that there is much to be gainedor lostby the decisions we make today. In this comprehensive social theory of the Internet and the networked information economy, Benkler describes how patterns of information, knowledge, and cultural production are changingand shows that the way information and knowledge are made available can either limit or enlarge the ways people can create and express themselves. But these results are by no means inevitable: a systematic campaign to protect the entrenched industrial information economy of the last century threatens the promise of today’s emerging networked information environment. The phenomenon he describes as social production is reshaping markets, while at the same time offering new opportunities to enhance individual freedom, cultural diversity, political discourse, and justice. The wealth of networks how social production transforms markets and freedom by Yochai Benkler 3.

With the radical changes in information production that the Internet has introduced, we stand at an important moment of transition, says Yochai Benkler in this thought-provoking book.

The Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler