The social media reader

Introduction / Michael Mandiberg

The people formerly known as the audience / Jay Rosen

Sharing nicely : On shareable goods and the emergence of sharing as a modality of economic production / Yochai Benkler

Open source as culture/culture as open source / Siva Vaidhyanathan

What is Web 2.0 : design patterns and business models for the next generation of software / Tim O'Reilly

What is collaboration anyway? / Adam Hyde, Mike Linksvayer, kanarinka, Michael Mandiberg, Marta Peirano, Sissu Tarka, Astra Taylor, Alan Toner, Mushon Zer-Aviv

Sociality

Participating in the always-on lifestyle / danah boyd

From Indymedia to demand media : journalism's visions of its audience and the horizons of democracy / C.W. Anderson

Humor

Phreakers, hackers, and trolls and the politics of transgression and spectacle / E. Gabriella Coleman

The language of (internet) memes / Patrick Davison

Money

The long tail / Chris Anderson

Law

Remix : how creativity is being strangled by the law / Lawrence Lessig

Your intermediary is your destiny / Fred von Lohmann

On the fungibility and necessity of cultural freedom / Fred Benenson

Giving it away is hard work : three creative commons case studies / Michael Mandiberg

Labor

Quentin Tarantino's star wars? : grassroots creativity meets the media industry / Henry Jenkins

Gin, television, and social surplus / Clay Shirky

Between democracy and spectacle : the front-end and back-end of the social web / Felix Stalder

D. I. Y. academy? : cognitive capitalism, humanist scholarship, and the digital transformation / Ashley Dawson

About the contributors

Index.

Introduction / Michael Mandiberg

The people formerly known as the audience / Jay Rosen

Sharing nicely : On shareable goods and the emergence of sharing as a modality of economic production / Yochai Benkler

Open source as culture/culture as open source / Siva Vaidhyanathan

What is Web 2.0 : design patterns and business models for the next generation of software / Tim O'Reilly

What is collaboration anyway? / Adam Hyde, Mike Linksvayer, kanarinka, Michael Mandiberg, Marta Peirano, Sissu Tarka, Astra Taylor, Alan Toner, Mushon Zer-Aviv

Sociality

Participating in the always-on lifestyle / danah boyd

From Indymedia to demand media : journalism's visions of its audience and the horizons of democracy / C.W. Anderson

Humor

Phreakers, hackers, and trolls and the politics of transgression and spectacle / E. Gabriella Coleman

The language of (internet) memes / Patrick Davison

Money

The long tail / Chris Anderson

Law

Remix : how creativity is being strangled by the law / Lawrence Lessig

Your intermediary is your destiny / Fred von Lohmann

On the fungibility and necessity of cultural freedom / Fred Benenson

Giving it away is hard work : three creative commons case studies / Michael Mandiberg

Labor

Quentin Tarantino's star wars? : grassroots creativity meets the media industry / Henry Jenkins

Gin, television, and social surplus / Clay Shirky

Between democracy and spectacle : the front-end and back-end of the social web / Felix Stalder

D. I. Y. academy? : cognitive capitalism, humanist scholarship, and the digital transformation / Ashley Dawson

About the contributors

Index.