context weblogsampling new cultural contextcommons-based peer production in the digitally networked environment- (Found July 2, 2008 ) For decades our common understanding of the organization of economic production has been that individuals order their productive activities in one of two ways: either as employees in firms, following the directions of managers, or as individuals in markets, following price signals. In this paper Yochai Benkler explain why we are beginning to see the emergence of a new, third mode of production, in the digitally networked environment, a mode he calls commons-based peer production... more in...http://straddle3.net/context/index.html |