Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780300125771 ISBN: 0300125771 Item Dimensions:125922165632 Label: Yale University Press Languages:EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishPublished Manufacturer: Yale University Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 528 Publication Date: October 23, 2007 Publisher: Yale University Press Studio: Yale University Press
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 changingand 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 gainedor lostby the decisions we make today.
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