Essays on Free Knowledge: The Origins of Wikipedia and the New Politics of Knowledge,Used
Essays on Free Knowledge: The Origins of Wikipedia and the New Politics of Knowledge,Used

Essays on Free Knowledge: The Origins of Wikipedia and the New Politics of Knowledge,Used

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For his longawaited first book, Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger has revised some of his best essays on Wikipedia, intellectual autonomy, knowledge in the digital age, and how to fight back against the centralization of the Internet.'A fundamental player in the history of the modern Internet' Salon'A philosopher who explores the very nature and sources of knowledge' Technology ReviewThe digital revolution has been corrupted. What began as a celebration of freedom has become a machine for monitoring and control. What began as historys greatest dream of enlightenment has been twisted into an antiintellectual nightmare of indoctrination.In twelve essays, several already wellknown but newly revised in this volume, Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger stakes out a hardheaded position in favor of the ideals of the digital revolution. At the same time he firmly rejects the disastrous navet that would have us abandon wisdom and autonomy, ignore subversion by bad actors, and blindly trust unaccountable, giant corporations.Sanger concludes with a new essay on the problems facing the free Internet, available only in this book.The essays (270 pgs.): The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia: A Memoir Two Early Articles about Wikipedia Wikipedias Original Neutrality Policy Why Neutrality? Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its AntiElitism How the Internet Is Changing What (We Think) We Know Who Says We Know: On the New Politics of Knowledge Individual Knowledge in the Internet Age Is There a New Geek AntiIntellectualism? Introducing the Encyclosphere Declaration of Digital Independence The Future of the Free Internet

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