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Overview

Yochai Benkler is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within the social sciences and computer science, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach to issues related to communication, political science, and network technologies.

The main fields of study for Benkler include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Computer Science

Within these domains, Benkler has contributed to several subfields, such as:

  • Communication
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Information Systems

Major research topics in Benkler's body of work encompass:

  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies
  • Open Source Software Innovations
  • Wikis in Education and Collaboration
  • Web Data Mining and Analysis
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts

Their publication record includes articles published predominantly in venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • Organization Science

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Benkler are:

  • Mail-In Voter Fraud: Anatomy of a Disinformation Campaign (2020, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • Next generation connectivity: a review of broadband internet transitions and policy from around the world (2024, Swinburne Research Bank)
  • Media Cloud: Massive Open Source Collection of Global News on the Open Web (2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media)
  • Polarization and the Pandemic: American Political Discourse, March - May 2020 (2020, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • Social Exchange and the Reciprocity Roller Coaster: Evidence from the Life and Death of Virtual Teams (2021, Organization Science)

Benkler frequently collaborates with a range of coauthors who have contributed in multiple publications. These include:

  • Bruce Etling
  • Hal Roberts
  • Justin Clark
  • Robert Faris
  • Jérôme Hergueux

Best Publications

  • The Wealth of Networks

    Yochai Benkler

  • The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom

    Yochai Benkler

  • The science of fake news

    David M. J. Lazer;Matthew A. Baum;Yochai Benkler;Adam J. Berinsky

  • Coase's Penguin, or, Linux and The Nature of the Firm

    Yochai Benkler

  • 'Sharing Nicely': On Shareable Goods and the Emergence of Sharing as a Modality of Economic Production

    Yochai Benkler

  • Commons-based Peer Production and Virtue

    Yochai Benkler;Helen Nissenbaum

  • Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics

    Yochai Benkler;Robert Farris;Hal Roberts

  • From Consumers to Users: Shifting the Deeper Structures of Regulation Toward Sustainable Commons and User Access

    Yochai Benkler

  • A Free Irresponsible Press: Wikileaks and the Battle Over the Soul of the Networked Fourth Estate

    Yochai Benkler

  • Freedom in the Commons: Towards a Political Economy of Information

    Yochai Benkler

  • Overcoming Agoraphobia: Building the Commons of the Digitally Networked Environment

    Yochai Benkler;Reinier Kraakman;Mark Geistfeld;John Kuzin

  • Some Economics of Wireless Communications

    Yochai Benkler

  • Social Mobilization and the Networked Public Sphere: Mapping the SOPA-PIPA Debate

    Yochai Benkler;Hal Roberts;Robert Faris;Alicia Solow-Niederman

  • Constitutional Bounds of Database Protection: The Role of Judicial Review in the Creation and Definition of Private Rights in Information

    Yochai Benkler

  • Through the Looking Glass: Alice and the Constitutional Foundations of the Public Domain

    Yochai Benkler

  • Intellectual Property and the Organization of Information Production

    Yochai Benkler

  • Peer Production, the Commons, and the Future of the Firm

    Yochai Benkler

  • Dynamic remodeling of in-group bias during the 2008 presidential election

    David G. Rand;Thomas Pfeiffer;Anna Dreber;Rachel W. Sheketoff

  • Free As the Air to Common Use: First Amendment Constraints on Enclosure of the Public Domain

    Yochai Benkler

  • Partisanship, Propaganda, and Disinformation: Online Media and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election

    Robert M. Faris;Hal Roberts;Bruce Etling;Nikki Bourassa

  • A tale of two blogospheres: discursive practices on the left and right

    Aaron Shaw;Aaron Shaw;Yochai Benkler

  • The unselfish gene.

    Yochai Benkler

  • Degrees of Freedom, Dimensions of Power

    Yochai Benkler

  • Communications infrastructure regulation and the distribution of control over content

    Yochai Benkler

  • Closing the access gap for health innovations: an open licensing proposal for universities.

    Samantha Chaifetz;Dave A Chokshi;Rahul Rajkumar;David Scales

  • The Political Economy of Commons

    Yochai Benkler

  • Peer production and cooperation

    Yochai Benkler

  • Cooperation in Peer-Production Economy: Experimental Evidence from Wikipedia

    Jérôme Hergueux;Yann Algan;Yochai Benkler;Mayo Fuster Morell

Frequent Co-Authors

Helen Nissenbaum
Helen Nissenbaum Cornell University
Ronald J. Gilson
Ronald J. Gilson Columbia University
Robert E. Scott
Robert E. Scott Columbia University
Filippo Menczer
Filippo Menczer Indiana University
Michael Schudson
Michael Schudson Columbia University
Duncan J. Watts
Duncan J. Watts University of Pennsylvania
David Lazer
David Lazer Northeastern University
Miriam J. Metzger
Miriam J. Metzger University of California, Santa Barbara
Gordon Pennycook
Gordon Pennycook Cornell University
Steven A. Sloman
Steven A. Sloman Brown University

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