The Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler

The Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler

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 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. 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. In this comprehensive social theory of the Internet and 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 create and express themselves. He describes the range of legal and policy choices that confront us and maintains that there is much to be gained, or lost, by the decisions we make today.

Yochai Benkler is professor of law at Yale Law School, Yale University.

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ISBN 13	9780300110562
ISBN 10	0300110561
Titel	The Wealth of Networks
Autor	Yochai Benkler
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Yale University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2006-05-16
Seitenanzahl	528
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