…—+1 125-86598_Landemore_Democracy_3P.indd 15 13/07/20 12:27 PM 16 C H A P TER 1 Wikipedia. The image of open-source software is applicable and relevant to democracy because if, as some have argued, “code is law” (Lessig 2000), one could argue, conversely, that democratic law s…
…ction,”29 the kind of collaborative production typically illustrated by the way Wikipedia articles are written. In commons-based peer production, participants collaborate to achieve a goal, typically the writing of a piece of code or text, in a way that involves full decentraliza…
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…rder to disclose confidential information to the benefit of the community (e.g. Wikileaks poses a similar problem: Benkler forthcoming). Chapter IV of the recent UN report on Free speech highlighted this transformative dimension of this core fundamental right, essential to libera…
…, German, Italian, Russian, Norwegian, Turkish and Georgian), blogs, a forum, a wiki repository, the OAC Press, a seminar series and personal pages in all their multimedia variety. Anyone can start anything on the OAC; some of them do, many more stay quiet. The administrators got…