Yochai Benkler

Yochai Benkler (born 1964) is an Israeli-American author and the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School . He is ook a faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet Small & Society at Harvard University .

Biography

From 1984 to 1987, Benkler was a member and treasurer of the Kibbutz Shizafon . [1] He RECEIVED his LL.B. from Tel Aviv University in 1991 and JD from Harvard Law School in 1994. He worked at the law firm Ropes & Gray from 1994 to 1995. He clerked for US Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer from 1995 to 1996. Benkler is the last person to clerk for a US Supreme Court justice without keeping prior judicial clerkship experience.

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 (prolongation 2002-2003) voordat 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 Center for Internet Small & Society. Benkler is on the advisory board of the Sunlight Foundation . [2] In 2011, his research led im not to receive the $ 100,000 Ford Foundation Social Change Visionaries Award. [3]

Works

Benkler’s research focuses on commons-based approaches to managing resources in networked environments. He coined the term ” commons-based peer production ” to DESCRIBE collaborative policymaking based on sharing information, zoals free and open source software and Wikipedia . [4] He’ll be uses the term “networked information economy ‘to DESCRIBE a” system of production, distribution, and consumption of information goods characterized by gedecentraliseerde individual action carried out through widely distributed, nonmarket Means therein do not DEPEND on market strategies. ” [5]

The Wealth of Networks

Benkler’s 2006 book The Wealth of Networks [6] gekeken the ways in welke information technology permits uitgebreide forms of collaboration dat port Potentially Transformative consequences for economy and society. Wikipedia , Creative Commons , Open Source Software and the Blogosphere are onder the examples therein Benkler draws upon. [7] ( The Wealth of Networks is Itself published under a Creative Commons license). For example, Benkler argues dat blogs and other modes of participatory communication kan lead to “a more critical and self-reflective culture”, where burgers are Empowered by the ability to publicize hun eigen opinions on a range of issues, welke kunnen Them to move from passive Recipients or “RECEIVED wisdom” to active participants. Much of The Wealth of Networks is Presented in economic terms, and Benkler raises the Possibility therein a culture in welke information is shared freely Could prove more economically efficient dan one in welke innovation is encumbered by patent or copyright law, since the marginal cost of re -producing musts information is effectief nothing.

Contributions to industrial information economy

Volgens to Benkler, the emergence of the networked information economy “has the potential to increase is individual autonomy”, [8] welke he mention anything Means bieden personen with a Richer base from welke ze kan form critical judgment Concerning how they ‘arnt live hun life.Benkler coined the term “Jalt ‘as a Contraction or Jealousy and altruism, to DESCRIBE the dynamic in commons-based peer production where some participants get paid while others do not, or” Whether people get paid differentially for work. ” The term was first introduced in his seminal paper “Coase’s Penguin, or, Linux and The Nature of the Firm.” It is DESCRIBED in more technical terms as “social-psychologische component of the reward to support monetaire Appropriation at Vodafone or … where one agent is jealous of the rewards or Another.” [9]

Benkler Appeared in the documentary film Steal This Movie , welke is available through Creative Commons . He discussed verschillende issues, including: how the changing cost structures in film and music production are enabling new stratums of society to create. [10]

Benkler is a strong proponent of Wikileaks , characterizing it as a prime example of non-traditional media filling a public watchdog role left vacant by traditional news outlets. [11] In a draft paper written for the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review in February 2011, he uses governmental vilification and prosecution of Wikileaks as a case study demonstrating the need for more robust legal protection for independent media. [12]

In August 2011, Benkler was a keynote speaker at the Wikimania conference in Haifa , Israel . [13] That co-August, [14] Benkler’s latest book on social cooperation online and off, Titled The Penguin and the Leviathan: How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest , was published. Benkler discussed this book at a lecture at Harvard bepaald on October 18, 2011. [15]

Benkler Contributed the essay “Complexity and Humanity” to the Freesouls book project, welke discusses the human element in production and technology. [16]

Awards

  • 2006 – Donald McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communications Policy Research [17]
  • 2006 – Public Knowledge IP3 Award [18]
  • March 2007 – EFF Pioneer Award [19]
  • 2008 – The American Sociological Association Section on Communication and Information Technologies (CITASA) Book Award [20]
  • 2009 – Don K. Price Award [21]
  • May 2011 – Ford Foundation Visionaries Award [22]

See also

  • Industrial information economy
  • Carr-Benkler Wager

References

  1. Jump up^ Benkler bio
  2. Jump up^ Board and Advisory BoardSunlight Foundation, February 14, 2011
  3. Jump up^ Yochai Benkler receives Ford Foundation Visionaries Awardon cyber.law.harvard.edu
  4. Jump up^ Steven Johnson (September 21, 2012). “The Internet? We Built That” . New York Times . Retrieved 2012-09-24 . The Harvard legal scholar Yochai Benkler has called this phenomenon “commons-based peer production.
  5. Jump up^ Benkler, Yochai (2006). The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom . New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press . p. 3. ISBN  0-300-11056-1 .
  6. Jump up^ Benkler, Yochai (2006). The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom . New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press. ISBN  0-300-11056-1 .
  7. Jump up^ Benkler, Y. (2011). “The Unselfish genes” . Harvard Business Review . 89 (7-8): 76-85, 164. PMID  21800472 .
  8. Jump up^ Benkler, Yochai (2006). The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom . New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press. ISBN  0-300-11056-1 .
  9. Jump up^ Benkler, Yochai (2002)Coase’s Penguin, or, Linux and the Nature of the Firm. The Yale Law Journal 112 (3): 429
  10. Jump up^ Conflicts in cultural production
  11. Jump up^ http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/yochai-benkler-every-journalist-should-shudderthat-amazon-took-wikileaks-its-servers
  12. Jump up^ http://www.benkler.org/Benkler_Wikileaks_current.pdf
  13. Jump up^ Israel Hosts Wikimania 2011
  14. Jump up^ “The Penguin and the Leviathan: How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest” . cyber.law.harvard.edu .
  15. Jump up^ The Penguin and the Leviathan: How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Intereston cyber.law.harvard.edu (October 8, 2011)
  16. Jump up^ Complexity and Humanity, Yochai Benkler
  17. Jump up^ Donald McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communications Policy Researchfrom The McGannon Center
  18. Jump up^ IP3 Awards Winners AnnouncedfromPublic Knowledge
  19. Jump up^ Press release March 2007orElectronic Frontier Foundation
  20. Jump up^ CITASA Book AwardfromAmerican Sociological Association
  21. Jump up^ Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics Section Don K. Price Award WinnersfromAmerican Political Science Association
  22. Jump up^ Twelve Social Change Visionaries Are Honored by the Ford Foundationonford foundation.org