CMNS 240 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9-2: Peer Production, Npr, Barn Raising
25 Nov 2016
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Freedom in the commons: towards a political economy of information: a moment of opportunity. One creative individual took hollywood"s finished product as raw material and extracted from within it his own film. The phantom edit epitomizes both the challenge and the promise of what has variously been called the new economy, the information economy, or, more closely tied to the recent technological perturbation, the internet economy. It tells us of a hugely successful company threatened by one creative individual a fan, not an enemy. It tells us of the tremendous potential of the internet to liberate individual creativity and enrich social discourse by thoroughly democratizing the way we produce information and culture. And it tells us how powerful proprietors can weigh in to discipline this unruly creativity; to silence the many voices it makes possible. Pattern that differs fundamentally from the industrial information economy of the twentieth century in two crucial characteristics:
