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==Summary of the chapter==
&uarr; [[Table of Contents]]<br />
===Overview===
&rarr; [[Part One]]
===The Emergence of the Networked Information Economy===
 
===Networked Information Economy and Liberal Democratic States===
== Content ==
====Enhanced Autonomy====
 
====Democracy: The Networked Public Sphere====
* [http://www.benkler.org/Benkler_Wealth_Of_Networks_Chapter_1.pdf Full text (PDF)]
====Justice and Human Development====
* [[Chapter 1|Full text (wiki)]]
====A Critical Culture and Networked Social Relations====
* [[Bulleted Chapter 1|Bulleted (wiki)]]
===Four Methodological Comments===
* [[Sentence-sliced Text Chapter 1|Full text, sentence-sliced (wiki)]]
====The Role of Technology in Human Affairs====
* [[Summary Chapter 1|Summary (wiki)]]
====The Role of Economic Analysis and Methodological Individualism====
 
====Economic Structure in Liberal Political Theory====
== Summary ==
====Whither the State?====
 
===The Stakes of It All: The Battle Over The Institutional Ecology of the Digital Environment===
Production is shifting from physical products like blue jeans, to decentralized information goods, like articles on the Internet. This gives users more power (they can publish instead of just reading), creates more opportunities for democratic participation, lowers costs for developing countries, and democratizes the creation of our culture.
 
This book will analyze these changes by looking at what new technologies make easy, applying an individualist economic model, and examining the effects on human beings. As the state's role has largely been to support big companies, this book will largely ignore it, even though it could be used as a force for good.
 
==Sources==
==Sources==
===[[Sources cited in the chapter]]===
===Sources cited in the chapter===
===[[Other relevant readings]]===
[http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/ Barry Wellman] et al., “[http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol8/issue3/wellman.html The Social Affordances of the Internet for Networked Individualism],” JCMC 8, no. 3 (April 2003).
==Examples==
 
===[[Supporting examples]]===
[http://www.langdonwinner.org/index.html Langdon Winner], ed., “[http://www.courses.psu.edu/phil/phil403_pam208/winner/ Do Artifacts Have Politics?]” in [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226902110/102-1896851-0466565?v=glance&n=283155 The Whale and The Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology] (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986), 19–39.
===[[Counter-examples]]===
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Innis Harold Innis], [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&id=nEXqB_KfxjgC&dq=harold+innis+bias+of+communication&psp=wp&pg=PP1&printsec=0&lpg=PP1&sig=07w8qBfAqicAScKD5oaLFfKEBbE The Bias of Communication] (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951 1951]).
 
[http://lessig.org/ Lawrence Lessig], [http://www.code-is-law.org/ Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace] (New York: Basic Books, 1999).
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Castells Manuel Castells], [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0631221409&id=hngg4aFtJVcC&dq=manuel+castells&pg=PP1&printsec=0&lpg=PP1&sig=NBPxhbzO0PMyda3lPEByp1Z5dSk The Rise of the Networked Society] (Cambridge, MA, and Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1996).
 
===Other relevant readings===
 
Steven Weber's "[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674018583/sr=8-1/qid=1145166266/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-3528198-0636147?%5Fencoding=UTF8 The Success of Open Source]" snippet from an editorial review on Amazon... "''...we can listen to Steven Weber and begin to make our peace with the uncomfortable fact that the very foundations of our familiar "knowledge as property" world have irrevocably shifted..."''
 
[http://www.cali.org/index.php?fuseaction=conference.ViewAgenda&eventid=1#goto1-2-1 Webcast] of Steven Weber at the 2005 Conference for Law School Computing titled ''Is Open Source the Opening Shot in an Economic Revolution?''
 
==Case Studies==
===Supporting examples===
 
====Global civil society / UN NGO Community====
 
: Global civil society
 
: [[UN NGO community]]
 
===Counter-examples===
 
==Key Concepts==
 
: [[Industrial information economy]]
 
: [[Networked information economy]]
 
: Peer production

Latest revision as of 18:12, 1 September 2006

Table of Contents
Part One

Content

Summary

Production is shifting from physical products like blue jeans, to decentralized information goods, like articles on the Internet. This gives users more power (they can publish instead of just reading), creates more opportunities for democratic participation, lowers costs for developing countries, and democratizes the creation of our culture.

This book will analyze these changes by looking at what new technologies make easy, applying an individualist economic model, and examining the effects on human beings. As the state's role has largely been to support big companies, this book will largely ignore it, even though it could be used as a force for good.

Sources

Sources cited in the chapter

Barry Wellman et al., “The Social Affordances of the Internet for Networked Individualism,” JCMC 8, no. 3 (April 2003).

Langdon Winner, ed., “Do Artifacts Have Politics?” in The Whale and The Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986), 19–39.

Harold Innis, The Bias of Communication (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1951).

Lawrence Lessig, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (New York: Basic Books, 1999).

Manuel Castells, The Rise of the Networked Society (Cambridge, MA, and Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1996).

Other relevant readings

Steven Weber's "The Success of Open Source" snippet from an editorial review on Amazon... "...we can listen to Steven Weber and begin to make our peace with the uncomfortable fact that the very foundations of our familiar "knowledge as property" world have irrevocably shifted..."

Webcast of Steven Weber at the 2005 Conference for Law School Computing titled Is Open Source the Opening Shot in an Economic Revolution?

Case Studies

Supporting examples

Global civil society / UN NGO Community

Global civil society
UN NGO community

Counter-examples

Key Concepts

Industrial information economy
Networked information economy
Peer production