Internet & Society: The Technologies and Politics of Control (Spring 2019)

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The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain, Yale University Press (2008) (Sections on generativity).

Read Introduction (1-5), Introduction to I (7-9), Introduction to II (63-65), “The Generative Pattern” (67-100).

John Bowers

These selections set out the theory of generativity, which conceptualizes systems in terms of the degree to which they lend themselves to extension and improvement at the hands of creative users. How does generativity – or its absence – bear on the contours of sovereignty and control on the internet?

The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain, Yale University Press (2008) (Sections on generativity).

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