Yochai Benkler

Yochai Benkler stated in his TED talks video that “a new social phenomenon is emerging, a new set of social relations and behaviors are emerging and paving the way for self-expression, new opportunities, and collaboration”. In this statement, Benkler means that the Internet is a catalyst. It is powerful tool that opens a whole new world, connecting people from all over the world. There is no doubt the Internet is changing the way we look, create, and share the economics of information. One way we

Content generated by the media is vastly changing with time. Alongside, how the audience wishes to view content is changing as well. In the earlier times, only televisions and radios were used to transfer information. Nowadays, new platforms and websites are using different techniques to deliver content to their respective audience. On Netflix “Nobody Speak,” by Brian Knappenberger is one of the many information and knowledge packed documentary, that redefines the way viewers learn about the different

Terry Bollea, professionally known by his wrestler stage name Hulk Hogan, sued Gawker Media for posting a sex videotape without his consent. In the controversial videotape, Bollea was having sex with Heather Clem, who was back then the wife of his best friend and radio personality Bubba the Love Sponge. Initially, Bollea also sued his now former best friend and Clem because, according to him, he did not agree to participate in the sex tape. Bollea also said that he was totally unaware of the video’s

The unnerving ‘Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press’ is a ninety-five-minute-long documentary by Brian Knappenberger that uncovers the story of Gawker Media, an online tabloid publishing a filmed sex tape of Hulk Hogan, a former wrestler, with Heather Clem, the wife his once best friend, Bubba ‘the Love Sponge’ Clem. The documentary examines how Hulk Hogan (real name is Terry Bollea), sued the Gawker Media for about $140 million for invasion of privacy, legally pursuing the online news media website

On the surface, Robert Putnam’s The Prosperous Community and Yochai Benkler’s The Wealth of Networks appear to be disparate. Putnam paints a picture of a contemporary society marked by declining social trust and discusses examples of communities that maintained substantial stocks of social capital primarily through face-to-face interaction in public social spaces (e.g. churches or community centers). Benkler responds to deep-rooted concerns about the adverse effects of the Internet on social networks

Free and open source software has become an integral part of the modern internet age. As a result of the threat posed by copyright laws sponsored by proprietary software companies, the free software community has developed many software licenses to combat copyright and protect the developer. Many open source licenses have ben used by developers to release their programs to the community. Some of the most popular licenses are the Apache License, the GNU General Public License (GPL), and the GNU

Not everyone uses social media, of course, but many people do use it because they want to showcase the value of what they are doing. They want to "talk" to others through social media outlets, but they are doing a lot of that for their own agenda (Benkler, 2006). Many are selling something to others, and those who are just using it to connect with other people spend much more time talking about what they are doing than they do inquiring about

Tiziana Terranova’s essay titled, “Free Labor”: Producing for the Digital Economy highlights the connection between the digital economy and the social factory. Net slaves associate the glamorization of labour with the modern sweatshop (Terranova 33). The scholar teaches media and cultural studies at the University of East London; her findings, fifteen years later, remain pertinent to user-generated content produced on the web (Hine, 1999). She bypasses the notion that cyberspace is about escaping

decentralized the process and promoted open-source software (OSS). OSS is software that is freely used, edited, and shared by anyone. As a result of OSS, users are able to generate content, also known as peer production. Peer production, according to Yochai Benkler (2006, p. 85), is a way of voluntarily donating meaningful, collaborative information from dynamic people. One modern example is Wikipedia—a free, online encyclopedia edited by

something that the filmmakers argue can never happen, and therefore fighting against Internet piracy is pointless. When examining this film, we find that its sources are very reliable. The interviewees include respected academics, one of them is Yochai Benkler, Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. Steal This Film also features an interview with Rick Prelinger, writer, filmmaker, founder of the Prelinger Archives, and associate professor at the University of California, Santa