The Carr-Benkler wager is between Yochai Benkler and Nicholas Carr about whether the most influential sites on the Internet will be peer-produced or price-incentivized systems.
History
The wager was proposed by Benkler in July 2006 in a comment to a blog post where Carr criticizes Benkler's views about volunteer peer-production.[1][2] Benkler believes that by 2010 the major sites will have content provided by volunteers in what Benkler calls commons-based peer production, as in Wikipedia, Digg, Flickr and YouTube.[3] Carr argues that the trend will favor content provided by paid workers, as in most traditional news outlets.
See also
References
- ^ Carr, Nicholas. "Calacanis's wallet and the Web 2.0 dream". Rough Type accessdate=2007-10-24.
{{cite web}}: Missing pipe in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Benkler, Yochai. "Benkler on Calacanis's wallet". Retrieved 2007-11-05.
- ^ Fox, Justin (February 15, 2007). "Getting Rich off Those Who Work for Free". Time (magazine). Retrieved 2007-03-03.
In other fields, it's not so clear. In a critique of Benkler's work last summer, business writer Nicholas Carr speculated that Web 2.0 media sites like Digg, Flickr and YouTube are able to rely on volunteer contributions simply because a market has yet to emerge to price this "new kind of labor." He and Benkler then entered into what has come to be widely known in Web circles as the "Carr-Benkler wager": a bet on whether, by 2011, such sites will be driven primarily by volunteers or by professionals.
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