The wealth of networks: how social production transforms markets and freedom

By Yochai Benkler. 2006

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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.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Seeking Out and Avoiding the News Media: Young Adults’ Proposed Strategies for Obtaining Current Events Information (2017, background): “…Mass Communication ISSN: 1520-5436 print / 1532-7825 online DOI: 10.1080/15205436.2016.1262424 358 enables news consumers to engage with content in deep and innovative ways (Benkler, 2006; Jenkins, 2006), there are also significant worries regarding the negative aspects of such a media environment.”
Putting the sharing economy into perspective (2017, background): “There is a strong historical and global connection between the emergence of peer-to-peer platforms and a widespread feeling that the new technology-enabled practices these platforms allow for, empower people (Benkler 2006).”
The age of digital entrepreneurship (2019, background): “…are affected such as preferential attachment (Jeong et al. 2003), long tail (Anderson 2007), the evolution of intellectual property in digital networks (Benkler 2006), the economics of AI (Bryniolfsson and McAfee 2014), or digitally and community enabled creativity (Anderson 2014; Florida 2006).”
REFRAMING SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT: A SERVICE‐DOMINANT LOGIC PERSPECTIVE (2011, background): “society (Brown and Duguid 2000; Benkler 2006), and the practice of SCM.”
Organizing for Innovation in the Digitized World (2012, background): “Recently, several legal scholars have made important theoretical contributions toward the changing nature of legal and regulatory systems based on their analysis of the nature of pervasive digital technology (Benkler 2006, Lessig 2008, Zittrain 2006).”
Big other: surveillance capitalism and the prospects of an information civilization (2015, neutral): “Still, capitalism ’ s success over the longue durée has depended upon the emergence of new market forms expressing new logics of accumulation that are more successful at meeting the ever-evolving needs of populations and their expression in the changing nature of demand.”
Design global, manufacture local: Exploring the contours of an emerging productive model (2015, background): “Moreover, peer production is opposed to the notion of scarcity of goods through which market profit is generated, as [155_TD$DIFF]the practice of sharing the created goods does not diminish [156_TD$DIFF]their value, but actually enhances it (Benkler, 2006).”