Benkler, Y. (2006) The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms markets and Freedom. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Discovered
Within this text it is explored that in the digital age the information industry has been revolutionised and anyone now has access to all the information on the planet and with this information it can be remixed and new information can be freely and easily produced and then distributed back to the world, however this has meant that it has had a significant detrimental effect on economies that profit from such information that is now being freely distributed for create by users for free.
Key Quotes
'Information, knowledge, and culture are central to human freedom and human development.'
'A series of changes in the technologies, economic organisation, and social practices of production in this environment has created new opportunities for how we make and exchange information, knowledge, and culture.'
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