From 17003950e9ca9e18d82ad0c15c341f748f622efa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ralph Amissah Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 12:27:23 -0500 Subject: data directory, housekeeping, small corrections --- data/samples/current/en/the_wealth_of_networks.yochai_benkler.sst | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'data/samples/current/en/the_wealth_of_networks.yochai_benkler.sst') diff --git a/data/samples/current/en/the_wealth_of_networks.yochai_benkler.sst b/data/samples/current/en/the_wealth_of_networks.yochai_benkler.sst index bf7935b..da86aa2 100644 --- a/data/samples/current/en/the_wealth_of_networks.yochai_benkler.sst +++ b/data/samples/current/en/the_wealth_of_networks.yochai_benkler.sst @@ -3067,7 +3067,7 @@ The structure of public inquiry, debate, and collective action exemplified by th It is common today to think of the 1990s, out of which came the Supreme Court's opinion in /{Reno v. ACLU}/, as a time of naïve optimism about the Internet, expressing in political optimism the same enthusiasm that drove the stock market bubble, with the same degree of justifiability. An ideal liberal public sphere did not, in fact, burst into being from the Internet, fully grown like Athena from the forehead of Zeus. The detailed criticisms of the early claims about the democratizing effects of the Internet can be characterized as variants of five basic claims: -{won_benkler_7_3a.png "Figure 7.3b: Internal E-mails Translated to Political and Judicial Action" }http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu +{won_benkler_7_3b.png "Figure 7.3b: Internal E-mails Translated to Political and Judicial Action" }http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu 1. /{Information overload.}/ A basic problem created when everyone can speak is that there will be too many statements, or too much information. Too ,{[pg 234]}, many observations and too many points of view make the problem of sifting through them extremely difficult, leading to an unmanageable din. This overall concern, a variant of the Babel objection, underlies three more specific arguments: that money will end up dominating anyway, that there will be fragmentation of discourse, and that fragmentation of discourse will lead to its polarization. ={ Babel objection ; @@ -5788,7 +5788,7 @@ We have an opportunity to change the way we create and exchange information, kno --~# -1~blurb Blurb +1~!blurb Blurb _1 "In this book, Benkler establishes himself as the leading intellectual of the information age. Profoundly rich in its insight and truth, this work will be the central text for understanding how networks have changed how we understand the world. No work to date has more carefully or convincingly made the case for a fundamental change in how we understand the economy of society." Lawrence Lessig, professor of law, Stanford Law School -- cgit v1.2.3