Symbsys 209 http://symbsys209.edublogs.org Battles Over Bits Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:50:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Week 10 – Student-led Discussions III http://symbsys209.edublogs.org/2007/11/28/week-10-student-led-discussions-iii/ http://symbsys209.edublogs.org/2007/11/28/week-10-student-led-discussions-iii/#comments Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:40:07 +0000 Todd http://symbsys209.edublogs.org/2007/11/28/week-10-student-led-discussions-iii/ 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:

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  • 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:

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Supplementary Event:

]]> http://symbsys209.edublogs.org/2007/11/08/student-led-discussions-i/feed/ 9 Week 7 – Wealth of Networks 11&12 http://symbsys209.edublogs.org/2007/10/31/week-7-wealth-of-networks-1112/ http://symbsys209.edublogs.org/2007/10/31/week-7-wealth-of-networks-1112/#comments Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:55:05 +0000 Todd http://symbsys209.edublogs.org/2007/10/31/week-7-wealth-of-networks-1112/ 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]
]]> http://symbsys209.edublogs.org/2007/10/31/week-7-wealth-of-networks-1112/feed/ 9 Week 6 – Wealth of Networks 9&10 http://symbsys209.edublogs.org/2007/10/24/week-6-wealth-of-networks-910/ http://symbsys209.edublogs.org/2007/10/24/week-6-wealth-of-networks-910/#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:20:12 +0000 Todd http://symbsys209.edublogs.org/2007/10/24/week-6-wealth-of-networks-910/ Required Reading:

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

Supplementary Reading:

Supplementary Event:

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  • “Political Freedom Part II: Emergence of the Networked Public Sphere” (chapter 7) [link]
  • “Cultural Freedom: A Culture Both Plastic and Critical” (chapter 8) [link]

Supplementary Event:

Please review the comment guidelines, then post your comment.

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  • “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:

Please add comments to this entry for week 4.

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

Please add your comments for this reading to this post. Remember that, to post a comment, you need to log in. To register an account, go here.

]]> http://symbsys209.edublogs.org/2007/10/08/week-3-the-wealth-of-networks-34/feed/ 9 Week 2 – The Wealth of Networks 1&2 http://symbsys209.edublogs.org/2007/09/27/week-2-the-wealth-of-networks-12/ http://symbsys209.edublogs.org/2007/09/27/week-2-the-wealth-of-networks-12/#comments Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:11:40 +0000 Todd http://symbsys209.edublogs.org/2007/09/27/week-2-the-wealth-of-networks-12/ Post your weekly blog comment as a response to this posting, no later than 6 pm on Tuesday, Oct. 3. Note that your first submission has to be approved, so it won’t show up right away.

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:

Supplementary Event:

]]> http://symbsys209.edublogs.org/2007/09/27/week-2-the-wealth-of-networks-12/feed/ 9 Week 1 – Introduction and Background http://symbsys209.edublogs.org/2007/09/27/week-1-introduction-and-background/ http://symbsys209.edublogs.org/2007/09/27/week-1-introduction-and-background/#comments Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:09:37 +0000 Todd http://symbsys209.edublogs.org/2007/09/27/week-1-introduction-and-background/ Welcome to Symbolic Systems 205. Feel free to post comments about yourself or the course as responses to this posting, to get used to using the course blog. Commenting is not required for week 1, however.

The slides for the first two sessions are posted as a pdf file here.

To post a comment, click on the title of this entry, or on the link to comments.

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