read Benkler, ch. 7-12

Also read all of the teaching assignments from last week (on the blogs).

Today's question: Now that we are at the end of the semester, use your experience from all of the readings in this course to put Benkler's ideas in The Wealth of Networks in play with one of the other authors we have read. For instance, compare and contrast a central argument from Benkler to Price, Innis, Howard, or any of the readings in the class. You might consider: Is the real difference between the two arguments you chose found in the choice of a research method or a set of assumptions? Or, can "the Internet" be substituted for another technology described by an earlier author in this course? (and if so, are the author's arguments still true?)

IMPORTANT ROOM CHANGE: This class meeting will be held at the off-campus location that we discussed in seminar.

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