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Infotopia : how many minds produce knowledge
- Title
- Infotopia : how many minds produce knowledge / Cass R. Sunstein.
- Author
- Sunstein, Cass R.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
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- Description
- xi, 273 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "New Ways to share and aggregate information, many Internet-based, are helping companies, schools, governments, and individuals not only to acquire, but also to create, ever-growing bodies of accurate knowledge. Through a ceaseless flurry of self-correcting exchanges, wikis, covering everything from politics and business plans to sports and science fiction subcultures, amass - and refine - information. Sunstein shows how people can assimilate aggregated information without succumbing to the dangers of the herd mentality - and when and why they new aggregation techniques are so accurate."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-258) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : dreams and nightmares -- Ch. 1. The (occasional) power of numbers -- Ch. 2. The surprising failures of deliberating groups -- Ch. 3. Four big problems -- Ch. 4. Money, prices, and prediction markets -- Ch. 5. Many working minds : wikis, open source software, and blogs -- Ch. 6. Implications and reforms -- Conclusion : realizing promises -- App. Prediction markets.
- ISBN
- 0195189280 (cloth)
- 9780195189285 (cloth)
- LCCN
- 2005036052
- OCLC
- ocm74267522
- SCSB-5927317
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries