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| Digital networks: Digital networks are interconnected systems facilitating communication and data exchange via digital means. These networks, like the internet, intranets, or LANs, allow devices to interact, share information, and access resources across geographical boundaries. They enable email, social media, and file sharing, fostering global connectivity and information dissemination. See also Email, Internet, Social Media, Communication._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Yochai Benkler on Digital Networks - Dictionary of Arguments
Benkler I 54 Digital Networks/Benkler: The difference that the digitally networked environment makes is its capacity to increase the efficacy, and therefore the importance, of many more, and more diverse, nonmarket producers (…). It makes nonmarket strategies—from individual hobbyists to formal, well-funded nonprofits—vastly more effective than they could be in the mass-media environment. The economics of this phenomenon are neither mysterious nor complex. >Networks, >Internet, >Internet culture, >Social networks, >Social media, >Misinformation. I 55 A billion people in advanced economies may have between two billion and six billion spare hours among them, every day. Beyond the sheer potential quantitative capacity, however one wishes to discount it to account for different levels of talent, knowledge, and motivation, a billion volunteers have qualities that make them more likely to produce what others want to read, see, listen to, or experience. They have diverse interests—as diverse as human culture itself. It’s an emergent property of connected human minds that they create things for one another’s pleasure and to conquer their uneasy sense of being too alone”(1). It is this combination of a will to create and to communicate with others, and a shared cultural experience that makes it likely that each of us wants to talk about something that we believe others will also want to talk about, that makes the billion potential participants in today’s online conversation, and the six billion in tomorrow’s conversation, affirmatively better than the commercial industrial model. I 56 The economics of production in a digital environment should lead us to expect an increase in the relative salience of nonmarket production models in the overall mix of our information production system, and it is efficient for this to happen—more information will be produced, and much of it will be available for its users at its marginal cost. 1. Eben Moglen, “Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright”, First Monday (1999), http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue4_8/moglen/. [Website not available as of 15/07/19]_____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Benkler I Yochai Benkler The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom New Haven 2007 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-28