Posts Tagged: values

1. When the book talks about establishing values, which values does it mean? There are a variety of values and everyone carries different values.

2. If the ethical code of journalism requires journalists to be unbiased in their reporting, does that mean news channels like Fox News and MSNBC are not true producers of news?

3. Are media related ethical dilemmas really as far and few between as the book makes it out to be or do the various forms of media have varying amounts of gray areas?

1. The whole first section of the Wealth of Networks is essentially an argument for the application of social production to our current institutions. So, if this trend continues to grow what impact could we see economically? As great as it would be for people to work together for nothing, our economy still requires the exchange of currency to function. Is this potentially a step towards a true socialistic or communistic society? (I mean a real communist society not a dictatorship proclaiming the values of communism).

2. What other arenas could social production be applied and will our cultural values allow the supplication of incentive production to social production?

3. What if social production was incorporated into the developing world? Right now, the developing world is trying to keep up with the developed world by becoming like us. This has caused various amounts of strife. So, what if they incorporated a social production method into their economic system? It might blend better with their individual cultures. For example, China is a very community based culture so I could see social production working well in that part of the world.