Symbsys 209

Presentations:

• Sunstein, C. (2006). Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge. Oxford University Press [led by Ben] [link]
• Torvalds, L. (2001). Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary. Collins [led by Evan]
• McChesney, R.W. (2007).Communication Revolution: Critical Junctures and the Future of Media. New Press. [led by Felicia]

Supplementary Event:

• Faceoff: Lessig v. Zittrain. Center for Internet and Society, Monday, December 3, 12:45-2 pm, Law 190
  

Presentations:

• Goldsmith, J. & Wu, T. (2006). Who Controls the Internet: Illusions of a Borderless World. Oxford University Press. [led by Laura]
• Stallman, R.M. (2002). Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman. Free Software Foundation [led by Greg] [link]
• Anderson, C. (2006). The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More. Hyperion. [led by Chris]

Supplementary Reading:

• Leeds, J. (2007). “The New Deal: Band as Brand”. The New York Times. November 11. [link]

Supplementary Event:

• Marc Rotenberg, Electronic Privacy Information Center, “Privacy Issues in the Google-Doubleclick Merger”, Monday, November 19, 12:30-2 pm, Law 280B

Presentations:

• Lessig, L. (2004). Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. The Penguin Press [led by John]
• Perelman, M. (2002). Steal This Idea: Intellectual Property Rights and the Corporate Confiscation of Creativity. Palgrave [led by Jason]
• Tapscott, D. & Williams, A.D. (2006). Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything. Portfolio Hardcover [led by Jessica]

Supplementary Event:

• Ron Goldman, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, “What Everyone Should Know About Open Source”, SSP Forum, Thursday, November 8, 4:15-5:30 pm, 380-380C (with dinner afterward in Wilbur)

Required Reading:

• “Part III: Policies of Freedom at a Moment of Transformation (introduction)” [link]
• “The Battle Over the Institutional Ecology of the Digital Environment” (chapter 11) [link]
• “Conclusion: The Stakes of Information Law and Policy” (chapter 12) [link]

Supplementary Reading (compiled by Jessica, every student should pick one, read and share it):

• Scholarly reviews:
  • Baca, Megan Ristau. (Harvard Law School) ” The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom.” Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Volume 20, Number 1, 2006. (16 pages, exceptionally detailed) [link]
  • Bartow, Ann (University of South Carolina Law School), ” Some Peer-to-Peer, Democratically and Voluntarily Produced Thoughts About ‘The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom,’ by Yochai Benkler.” Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law, Vol. 5, p. 451, 2007 [link]
  • Bergman, Michael K. “Benkler’s Wealth of Networks.” (blog only) [link]
  • Bohn, Jeremy. (Suffolk University Law School) “The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom.” Journal of High-Technology Law (2006-07) [link]
  • Carr, Nick. “Calacanis’s wallet and the Web 2.0 dream.” (blog only) [link]
  • Duguid, Paul (Berkeley Information School) “Review of Yochai Benkler’s The Wealth of Networks” (PDF file) [link]
  • Frischmann, Brett. (University of Chicago Law School). “Cultural Environmentalism and the Wealth of Networks.” University of Chicago Law Review, 2007 [link]
  • Le, Noel. “The Wealth of Networks, Too Premature” (blog only) [link]
  • Lee, Timothy B. (Cato Institute) “Yochai Benkler and the Libertarian Center” (blog only) [link]
  • Purdy, Jedediah. (New America Foundation) “The New Open Society: A Review of Cass Sunstein’s ‘Infotopia’ and Yochai Benkler’s ‘The Wealth of Networks” The American Prospect, November 2006 [link]
  • Ross, Patrick. “Benkler and the New World Order.” (blog only) [link]
  • Strahilevitz, Lior. (University of Chicago Law School) “Wealth Without Markets.” U Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 315 ,Yale Law Journal, Vol. 116, 2007 [link]
  • Tepper, Michele. “netWorker.” ACM Press, Vol 10, issue 2, June 2006, pp. 33-35. (very short review) [link]
  • Vaidhyanathan, Siva. “The Dialectic of Technology” (blog only) [link]

• Very minimal:
  • Lawrence Lessig’s linkage: [link]
  • Amazon.com’s reviews: [link]

• Interviews with Yochai Benkler:
  • Silberman, M. Six, Assignment Zero, May 24, 2007: [link]
  • Ahlert, Christian, Open Democracy, April 27, 2006: [link]
  • iCommons, July 23, 2007 (review of one of Benkler’s presentations): [link]

• Links to a “web seminar” on the book:
  • Crooked Timber: [link]

Required Reading:

• “Justice and Development” (chapter 9) [link]
• “Social Ties: Networking Together” (chapter 10) [link]

Supplementary Reading:

• Research on Peer-to-Peer File Sharing: Attitudes, Behaviors, and Effects (page of links)

Supplementary Event:

• Jack Goldsmith, Harvard Law School, “The Terror Presidency”, Monday, Oct. 29, 12:30-2 pm, Law 190

Required Reading:

• “Political Freedom Part II: Emergence of the Networked Public Sphere” (chapter 7) [link]
• “Cultural Freedom: A Culture Both Plastic and Critical” (chapter [link]

Supplementary Event:

• Jonathan Zittrain, Oxford and Stanford, “The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It”
  • Thursday, Oct. 18, 12:15 pm, Packard 101
  • or Monday, Oct. 22, 12:45-2 pm, Law 280B

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Required Reading:

• “Part II: The Political Economy of Property and Commons” (introduction) [link]
• “Individual Freedom: Autonomy, Information and the Law” (chapter 5) [link]
• “Political Freedom Part I: The Trouble with Mass Media” (chapter 6) [link]

Supplementary Reading:

• Jeff Leeds, “In Radiohead Price Plan, Some See a Movement”, New York Times, Oct. 11, 2007 [link]

Supplementary Events:

• Dirk Riehle, SAP, “Open Source Research: Analytics, Economics, and Best Practices”, Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 4:15 pm, Gates B03
• Jimmy Wales, Wikimedia and Wikia, “Free Culture and the Future of Search”, Stanford Law and Technology Association (SLATA) talk, Thursday, Oct. 11, 12:30 pm, Law 190

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Required Reading:

• “Peer Production and Sharing” (chapter 3) [link]
• “The Economics of Social Production” (chapter 4) [link]

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Required Reading:

• “Introduction: A Moment of Opportunity and Challenge” (chapter 1) [link]
• “Some Basic Economics of Information Production and Innovation” (chapter 2) [link]

Supplementary Reading:

• “Epigraph” and “Table of Contents” [link]
• “Acknowledgments” [link]
• “Part I: The Networked Information Economy (introduction)” [link]
• “Yochai Benkler” at Wikipedia.org

Supplementary Event:

• Fred von Lohmann, Electronic Frontier Foundation, “RIAA v. the People: Four Years and Counting”, Thursday, September 27, 12:45-2 pm, Law School 280A

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