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The wealth of networks [electronic resource] : how social production transforms markets and freedom / Yochai Benkler.

By: Benkler, Yochai.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2006Description: xii, 515 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Subject(s): Information society | Information networks | Computer networks -- Social aspects | Computer networks -- Economic aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 303.48/33 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Introduction: a moment of opportunity and challenge -- The networked information economy -- Some basic economics of information production and innovation -- Peer production and sharing -- The economics of social production -- The political economy of property and commons -- Individual freedom: autonomy, information, and law -- Political freedom part 1: the trouble with mass media -- Political freedom part 2: emergence of the networked public sphere -- Cultural freedom: a culture both plastic and critical -- Justice and development -- Social ties: networking together -- Policies of freedom at a moment of transformation -- The battle over the institutional ecology of the digital environment -- Conclusion: the stakes of information law and policy.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 475-490) and index.

Introduction: a moment of opportunity and challenge -- The networked information economy -- Some basic economics of information production and innovation -- Peer production and sharing -- The economics of social production -- The political economy of property and commons -- Individual freedom: autonomy, information, and law -- Political freedom part 1: the trouble with mass media -- Political freedom part 2: emergence of the networked public sphere -- Cultural freedom: a culture both plastic and critical -- Justice and development -- Social ties: networking together -- Policies of freedom at a moment of transformation -- The battle over the institutional ecology of the digital environment -- Conclusion: the stakes of information law and policy.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.