Yochai Benkler

Biography

From 1984 to 1987, Benkler was a member and treasurer of the Kibbutz Shizafon. He received his LL.B. from Tel-Aviv University in 1991 and J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1994. He worked at the law firm Ropes & Gray from 1994 to 1995. He clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer from 1995 to 1996.

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 (during 2002–2003), before 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 Klein Center for Internet & Society. Benkler is on the advisory board of the Sunlight Foundation. In 2011, his research led him to receive the $100,000 Ford Foundation Social Change Visionaries Award. He is also one of the 25 leading figures on the Information and Democracy Commission launched by Reporters Without Borders.

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 efforts based on sharing information, such as free and open source software and Wikipedia. He also uses the term 'networked information economy' to describe a "system of production, distribution, and consumption of information goods characterized by decentralized individual action carried out through widely distributed, nonmarket means that do not depend on market strategies."

''The Wealth of Networks''

Benkler's 2006 book The Wealth of Networks examines the ways in which information technology permits extensive forms of collaboration that have potentially transformative consequences for economy and society. Wikipedia, Creative Commons, Open Source Software and the blogosphere are among the examples that Benkler draws upon.{{Cite journal | url-access = subscription

''Network Propaganda''

Along with Robert Faris, Research Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and Hal Roberts, a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, Benkler co-authored the October 2018 Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation and Radicalization in American Politics.

In 2011, Benkler published The Penguin and the Leviathan: How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest.

Awards

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

References

References

1. [http://www.benkler.org/CV.html Benkler bio], [https://web.archive.org/web/20240809195607/http://www.benkler.org/CV.html archived]
2. [http://sunlightfoundation.com/board_of_directors/ Board and Advisory Board] {{webarchive. link. (2010-10-16 Sunlight Foundation, February 14, 2011)
3. [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/newsroom/Yochai_Benkler_receives_Ford_Foundation_Visionaries_Award Yochai Benkler receives Ford Foundation ''Visionaries Award''] on cyber.law.harvard.edu
4. (9 September 2018). "Yochai Benkler | Reporters without borders".
5. Steven Johnson. (September 21, 2012). "The Internet? We Built That". [[New York Times]].
6. Benkler, Yochai. (2006). "The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom". [[Yale University Press]].
7. Benkler, Yochai. (2006). "The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom". Yale University Press.
8. (October 15, 2018). "Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation and Radicalization in American Politics". Oxford University Press.
9. "The Penguin and the Leviathan by Yochai Benkler: 9780307590190".
10. [http://www.fordham.edu/academics/office_of_research/research_centers__in/donald_mcgannon_comm/book_award_33998.asp Donald McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communications Policy Research] from The McGannon Center
11. [https://web.archive.org/web/20061001013226/http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/665#story2 IP3 Awards Winners Announced] from [http://www.publicknowledge.org/ Public Knowledge]
12. [https://www.eff.org/press/releases/2007/03 Press release March 2007] of [[Electronic Frontier Foundation]]
13. [http://www2.asanet.org/citasa/recipients.html CITASA Book Award] {{webarchive. link. (2012-11-24 from [[American Sociological Association]])
14. [http://www.apsanet.org/imgtest/Org%20Section%2015%20-%20Science,%20Technology,%20and%20Environmental%20Politics.pdf Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics Section ''Don K. Price Award'' Winners] {{Webarchive. link. (2014-12-14 from [[American Political Science Association]])
15. [http://www.fordfoundation.org/newsroom/news-from-ford/480 Twelve Social Change Visionaries Are Honored by the Ford Foundation] {{webarchive. link. (2011-11-02 on [[Ford Foundation). fordfoundation]].org