CMN 2170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Yochai Benkler, Radical Transparency, Web 2.0
23 Feb 2016
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Radical transparency: (will be on the exam) is the essence of facebook and social networking such as snapchat. Then he bought 4 other houses around his house because he doesn"t want any neighbors around and he"s telling us to be radical. Radical transparency for the people without power (the middle class). Behind our social network and behind our social networking tools sits behind a number of elites and our subscription to these social network sites enforces their roles. Decentralized individual action where we"re seeing more and more. Non-markets mechanisms like the gift economy where you give pictures and information where you give and get. On the internet we see non-proprietary gift information. Everything that is described in web 2. 0 was there in web 1. 0. Web 2. 0 ideologies are described as wasting time on corporate sites giving your stuff away for free. There"s an ideology of how our entertainment are labeled. Behind the web dream lays a friction-free capitalism.
