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==The Positive Value of Network Effects== | ==The Positive Value of Network Effects== | ||
( | Source: Benkler, ''[http://www.benkler.org/wealth_of_networks/index.php/Main_Page Wealth of Networks]'' | ||
pp. 7-8: "The basic claim is that the diversity of ways of organizing information | |||
production and use opens up a range of possibilities for pursuing the | |||
core political values of liberal societies -- individual freedom, a more | |||
genuinely participatory political system, a critical culture, and social | |||
justice." Distinct but overlapping points: | |||
* "Individual Freedom" - Ability to self-broadcast | |||
* "Genuine Participation" - | |||
** Timeliness: immediate response of bloggers, YouTubers to media comments. | |||
*** Counterpoint: who really does this? Are we just taking the word of a different set of quasi-authorities? | |||
* "Critical Culture" - access to media, individual's ability to respond. | |||
** Individual fact-checking (e.g., Hillary's background) | |||
* "Social Justice" - | |||
==Some Counterarguments== | ==Some Counterarguments== | ||
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=== | ===Sunstein: "Me-casting"=== | ||
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Revision as of 17:58, 13 February 2007
The Positive Value of Network Effects
Source: Benkler, Wealth of Networks
pp. 7-8: "The basic claim is that the diversity of ways of organizing information production and use opens up a range of possibilities for pursuing the core political values of liberal societies -- individual freedom, a more genuinely participatory political system, a critical culture, and social justice." Distinct but overlapping points:
- "Individual Freedom" - Ability to self-broadcast
- "Genuine Participation" -
- Timeliness: immediate response of bloggers, YouTubers to media comments.
- Counterpoint: who really does this? Are we just taking the word of a different set of quasi-authorities?
- Timeliness: immediate response of bloggers, YouTubers to media comments.
- "Critical Culture" - access to media, individual's ability to respond.
- Individual fact-checking (e.g., Hillary's background)
- "Social Justice" -