Yochai Roberts Benkler
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Public Good Superstars: A Lab-in-the-Field Study of Wikipedia Open
Many field public goods are provided by a small number of contributors: the ‘superstars’ of their respective communities. This paper focuses on Wikipedia, one of the largest online volunteering platforms. Over nine consecutive years, we st…
View article: Next generation connectivity: a review of broadband internet transitions and policy from around the world
Next generation connectivity: a review of broadband internet transitions and policy from around the world Open
This report documents a study by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University to review international experiences with broadband and plans for next generation connectivity. The most prominent initial findings were that…
Social Exchange and the Reciprocity Roller Coaster: Evidence from the Life and Death of Virtual Teams Open
Organizations are riddled with cooperation problems, that is, instances in which workers need to voluntarily exert effort to achieve efficient collective outcomes. To sustain high levels of cooperation, the experimental literature demonstr…
Media Cloud: Massive Open Source Collection of Global News on the Open Web Open
We present the first full description of Media Cloud, an open source platform based on crawling hyperlink structure in operation for over 10 years, that for many uses will be the best way to collect data for studying the media ecosystem on…
Do I Trust this Stranger? Generalized Trust and the Governance of Online Communities Open
Online peer production communities such as Wikipedia typically rely on a distinct class of users, called administrators, to enforce cooperation when good faith collaboration fails. Assessing one’s intentions is a complex task, however, esp…
Media Cloud: Massive Open Source Collection of Global News on the Open Web Open
We present the first full description of Media Cloud, an open source platform based on crawling hyperlink structure in operation for over 10 years, that for many uses will be the best way to collect data for studying the media ecosystem on…
Productivity Versus Power: The Role of Law and Technology, (Mis)perceptions and Ideology Open
Power and productivity mediate economic outcomes across markets–both product markets and labor markets. We develop a neoclassical economic framework that combines productivity and power, and presents the balance between them as an equilibr…
Replication Data for: Mail-In Voter Fraud: Anatomy of a Disinformation Campaign Open
Stories, media sources, and links used for the paper at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3703701
Snapshot data for: Media Cloud: Massive Open Source Collection of Global News on the Open Web Open
This dataset includes a snapshot of Media Cloud's geographic collections, associated sources, and mappings between collections to sources downloaded from the Media Cloud API.
View article: Network Propaganda
Network Propaganda Open
This book examines the shape, composition, and practices of the United States political media landscape. It explores the roots of the current epistemic crisis in political communication with a focus on the remarkable 2016 U.S. president el…
View article: Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics
Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics Open
"Is social media destroying democracy? Are Russian propaganda or "Fake news" entrepreneurs on Facebook undermining our sense of a shared reality? A conventional wisdom has emerged since the election of Donald Trump in 2016 that new technol…
The science of fake news Open
Addressing fake news requires a multidisciplinary effort
Partisanship, Propaganda, and Disinformation: Online Media and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election Open
In this study, we analyze both mainstream and social media coverage of the 2016 United States presidential election. We document that the majority of mainstream media coverage was negative for both candidates, but largely followed Donald T…
View article: Peer production, the commons, and the future of the firm
Peer production, the commons, and the future of the firm Open
From free and open source software, through Wikipedia to video journalism, peer production plays a more significant role in the information production environment than was theoretically admissible by any economic model of motivation and or…
Degrees of Freedom, Dimensions of Power Open
The original Internet design combined technical, organizational, and cultural characteristics that decentralized power along diverse dimensions. Decentralized institutional, technical, and market power maximized freedom to operate and inno…