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Wealth of Networks How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom

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ISBN-10: 0300110561

ISBN-13: 9780300110562

Edition: 2006

Authors: Yochai Benkler

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This comprehensive social theory of the Internet and networked information economy 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 create and express themselves.
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Book details

List price: $47.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 5/16/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 528
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English

Introduction : a moment of opportunity and challenge
Some basic economics of information production and innovation
Peer production and sharing
The economics of social production
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
The battle over the institutional ecology of the digital environment
Conclusion : the stakes of information law and policy