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Wealth of Networks WikiNotes

Welcome to the Wealth of Networks WikiNotes

This Wiki is an invitation to collaborate on building a learning and research environment based on Yochai Benkler's book, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom.

Read the Wealth of Networks

• Chapter 1 - full text

• Bulleted Chapter 1 - re-formatted for easier reading

• Download PDFs of the book

• Order a hardcopy on Amazon

• Read an offsite formatted HTML version of the book

Uses of this Wiki space

The basic idea is to make this Wiki a place where people who read the book can do at least five things.

• First, collaborate on writing a summary of the ideas and claims of the book, as an initial point of entry.

• Visit the Table Of Contents and elaborate chapter summaries

• Second, collaborate on writing commentaries on the book and elaborating and refining its presentation

• Third, provide an easy platform through which to access underlying research materials:

• both those used in the book's notes, and more importantly,

• resources that are useful for further research, refinement, and updating.

• Fourth, the Wiki should be a place where participants can describe, link to, and analyze examples of the phenomena the book describes.

• The purpose is not to “make the case” for the book or find “gotcha” counter examples.

• What we are trying to do is provide a real research tool, annotated bibliography, and platform for collaborative learning.

• Examples and counter-examples should be selected and described with that purpose in mind.

• Fifth, the Wiki is itself a learning platform about what is valuable in a learning platform.

• Through separate pages devoted to ideas and experiments of what can be done with an online book to make it a learning platform, we hope to expand the range of uses to which this Wiki can be available.

• Through creative, systematic and interactive uses of this wiki, we hope to enhance our individual and collective skills & experience in a wiki world

Growing this Wiki

Ideas for how to help the wiki grow and be useful

Remixes

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