The Wealth of Networks (edit title)

Ulrich edited the table of contents of The Wealth of Networks Tuesday, November 10 2009.

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Timothy Gray approved Ulrich’s request to change the title of The Wealth of Networks Tuesday, November 10 2009.

Ulrich changed the title of The Wealth of Networks Tuesday, November 10 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of The Wealth of Networks Saturday, August 1 2009.

• 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 the 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 can 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.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Wealth of Networks Thursday, July 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: Yochai Benkler: (Primary Author)