Yochai Benkler

Yochai Benkler (

He was a professor at New York University School of Law from 1996 to 2003, and visited at Yale Law School and Harvard Law School (during 2002–2003), before joining the Yale Law School faculty in 2003. In 2007, Benkler joined Harvard Law School, where he teaches and is a faculty co-director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Benkler is on the advisory board of the Sunlight Foundation.^[2] In 2011, his research led him to receive the $100,000 Ford Foundation Social Change Visionaries Award.^[3] He is also one of the 25 leading figures on the Information and Democracy Commission launched by Reporters Without Borders.^[4]

Works

Benkler's research focuses on commons-based approaches to managing resources in networked environments. He coined the term

The Wealth of Networks

Benkler's 2006 book

Open Source Software and the blogosphere are among the examples that Benkler draws upon.^[8] (The Wealth of Networks is itself published under a Creative Commons license.) For example, Benkler argues that blogs and other modes of participatory communication can lead to "a more critical and self-reflective culture", where citizens are empowered by the ability to publicize their own opinions on a range of issues, which enables them to move from passive recipients of "received wisdom" to active participants. Much of The Wealth of Networks is presented in economic terms, and Benkler raises the possibility that a culture in which information is shared freely could prove more economically efficient than one in which innovation is encumbered by patent or copyright

law, since the marginal cost of re-producing most information is effectively nothing.

Network Propaganda

Along with Robert Faris, Research Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and Hal Roberts, a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, Benkler co-authored the October 2018

Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation and Radicalization in American Politics.^[9]

In 2011, Benkler published The Penguin and the Leviathan: How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest.^[citation needed]

Awards

• 2006 – Donald McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communications Policy Research^[10]
• 2006 – Public Knowledge IP3 Award^[11]
• 2007 – EFF Pioneer Award^[12]
• 2008 – The American Sociological Association Section on Communication and Information Technologies (CITASA) Book Award^[13]
• 2009 – Don K. Price Award^[14]
• 2011 – Ford Foundation Visionaries Award^[15]

See also

• List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 2)
• Industrial information economy
• Carr–Benkler wager

References

1. ^ Benkler bio
2. ^ Board and Advisory Board Archived 2010-10-16 at the Wayback Machine Sunlight Foundation, February 14, 2011
3. ^ Yochai Benkler receives Ford Foundation Visionaries Award on cyber.law.harvard.edu
4. ^ "Yochai Benkler | Reporters without borders". 9 September 2018.
5. New York Times
   . Retrieved 2012-09-24. The Harvard legal scholar Yochai Benkler has called this phenomenon 'commons-based peer production'.
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10. ^ Donald McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communications Policy Research from The McGannon Center
11. ^ IP3 Awards Winners Announced from Public Knowledge
12. ^ Press release March 2007 of Electronic Frontier Foundation
13. ^ CITASA Book Award Archived 2012-11-24 at the Wayback Machine from American Sociological Association
14. ^ Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics Section Don K. Price Award Winners Archived 2014-12-14 at the Wayback Machine from American Political Science Association
15. ^ Twelve Social Change Visionaries Are Honored by the Ford Foundation Archived 2011-11-02 at the Wayback Machine on fordfoundation.org

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Yochai Benkler.

• Official website
• Yochai Benkler on
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• Official page at Harvard Law School
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Interview with Benkler
• Speaking at Pop!Tech 2005
• Yochai Benkler at TED
  • Yochai Benkler on the new open-source economics, a TED talk (TEDGlobal 2005)
• The Penguin and The Leviathan: The Science and Practice of Cooperation at The Santa Fe Institute 2010.
• Wikipedia 1, Hobbes 0: Benkler's chair lecture at Harvard Law, as reported in the Harvard Law Record
• From Consumers to Users: Shifting the Deeper Structures of Regulation. Toward Sustainable Commons and User Access
• Library of Economics and Liberty
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