This is a video presentation I put together for my Net Economics course, as well as to inspire my co-workers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and everyone else for that matter, to “get in there and play” when it comes to building the information commons through social media.
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The crowd wants information to be free
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009Let me begin with a picture of Kenneth Himma, Ph.D, J.D., and philosophy professor at Seattle Pacific University.
Alright, all kidding aside, this is actually actor Kevin Bacon in the 1978 film Animal House. And, if you are familiar with the scene being depicted, I should note that I am not asserting that Himma is a flustered ROTC student trying in vain to maintain order during a riot on the city streets after a fraternity prank causes mass chaos, uselessly shouting to the crowd “All is well!”. No, instead I should explain that this image is something that came to my mind when I realized that arguments Himma puts forth in a 2005 accepted and forthcoming APA Newsletters on Philosophy and Computers essay against the popular notion “information should be free” (ISBF) are likely to forever fall on deaf ears. (more…)
Discussing Benkler: could the market still industrialize new social patterns of information production?
Thursday, May 7th, 2009A rich information commons is vital to the widespread diffusion of social production. Without the commons, sharing, collaborating, and taking collective action1 are stymied. Yochai Benkler (2006), in his seminal work The Wealth of Networks, argued that new social patterns of information production could still be industrialized by the market through both state intervention and the incumbent control of communications infrastructure (p. 22-28). This article will explain where he was correct and how his claim might be invalidated.
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