[Air-L] Open Internet (speech) and Economics

Fri Jun 26 10:21:58 PDT 2015

Carol Rose talks about the relationship between free speech, public space, and commerce in her article “Comedy of the Commons”

http://www.jstor.org/stable/1599583

In it she argues that social interaction in public space (free speech) is critical to socializing members of society towards common cultural customs. Without public spaces for socialization towards customs, a public becomes “a shapeless mob, whose members neither trade nor converse nor play, but only fight.”

Gabriel Mugar
Doctoral Candidate, Syracuse University
Information Science and Technology
www.buildingthecommons.org<http://www.buildingthecommons.org>
@gmugar

On Jun 26, 2015, at 11:25 AM, MC Cambre <mcambre at ualberta.ca<mailto:mcambre at ualberta.ca>> wrote:

In response to this, my thoughts would be that there may be a correlation
between how much debt an individual carries and their freedom (as
experienced phenomenologically perhaps) to communicate online. Some
considerations include the propensity of many employers to request Facebook
and other social media passwords or page sites as part of the interview
process. The more precarious an employee the quieter and more obedient
he/she needs to be, neoliberal subjectivation and all that.
cc

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 10:55 AM, diananeal <diananeal at gmail.com<mailto:diananeal at gmail.com>> wrote:

I'm not sure about economics. But when someone thinks(doesn't necessarily
be true)they approach the world in a different way, and are more likely to
be compliant with decisions that are made. I would think economics plays a
part in that the more choices a person has the more they feel they have a
relationship, an investment in how things will turn out. Someone has a say,
and has choices theoretical they would be more productive, and prosperous.
So yes, free speech would be an economic good. Everyone wants to be heard,
and understood. I think free speech would provide a way for people to meet
a basic human need.

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From: Ren Reynolds <ren at aldermangroup.com<mailto:ren at aldermangroup.com>>
Date: 06/25/2015  16:56  (GMT-06:00)
To: Sarah Myers <sarahmye at usc.edu<mailto:sarahmye at usc.edu>>, air <air-l-aoir.org at listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l-aoir.org at listserv.aoir.org>>
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Open Internet (speech) and Economics

I’m pondering the question: can one argue that free speech is an economic
good - or at the very least correlates to an increase in some economic
measures such as, but not limited to, aggregate measures such as GDP.

There may be richer arguments about relationships to access, opportunity
wealth distribution etc, but of the moment I’m just pondering gross
measures. Thought i would be interested in these arguments too e.g. I could
see that increased ‘speech’ of the privileged may lead to more private for
them with drags gross economic indicators up.

ren

On 25 Jun 2015, at 17:53, Sarah Myers <sarahmye at usc.edu<mailto:sarahmye at usc.edu>> wrote:

Hi Ren,

Could you be a little more specific about what you're interested in?
I've been doing a lot of work on free speech issues and commercial Internet
platforms, if that's relevant.

Best,

Sarah

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Ren Reynolds <ren at aldermangroup.com<mailto:ren at aldermangroup.com>
<mailto:ren at aldermangroup.com>> wrote:
If anyone is working on the relationship between free speech on the
internet and economics, particularly from a public policy point of view -
I’d be interested in having a chat.
ren

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