Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Feb 24, 2010, 08:46 PM

My own idea is that Information Wants to Be Free is about as supportable as the Free Lunch---as in "There's no such thing."   By that I mean that, as with the proverbial free lunch, free information is never really cost-free.   On the most basic level, there are labor and environmental and opportunity costs--and other costs too--that go along with the inarguable and inestimable benefits of free-flowing information.  More than that, anyone who thinks such things as a Google search of the Web is "free," is, to put it bluntly, a fool.

Submitted by jonathan.tarr on Jul 10, 2009, 05:20 PM

 

The second issue of the new digital media and learning journal from MIT Press, The International Journal of Learning and Media (IJLM) has been published. This provocati

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Feb 11, 2008, 08:34 PM
Is knowledge ever free? Are there unseen workers laboring in those fields who are ripped off if we, as consumers, demand free and open access to scholarly journals? We need to be thinking through production as well as consumption in new and interesting ways.