[…] Yochai Benkler (2006) says that “emerging models of information and cultural production, radically decentralized and based on emergent patterns of cooperation and sharing … are beginning to take on an ever-larger role in how we produce meaning” (Chp 2, para. 6). “Emergent” is misleading in this phrase because I’ve been participating in cooperative networks since before I could pronounce the word “Xanga.” The models of production Benkler discusses were in place well before digital reffered to a technological practice. […]

[…] Here I break down and illustrate the concept – summarising and re-working chapter 2 from Yochai Benkler’s Wealth of Networks (entitled Some Basic Economics of Information Production and Innovation). […]

[…] Japan’s culture clash with Google’s philosophy, or when the information economy model challenges traditional views of the economy are just the beginning of a variety of culture clashes that might keep the declaration’s […]

[…] we read Chapter 2 of Yochai Benkler’s, The Wealth of Networks, we discussed briefly in class his point that […]