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dc.contributor.authorAllen, Matthew
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T15:30:33Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T15:30:33Z
dc.date.created2009-11-12T20:01:50Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.identifier.citationAllen, Matthew. 2009. Tim O'Reilly and Web 2.0: The economics of memetic liberty and control. Communication, Politics and Culture 42 (2): pp. 6-23.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/47002
dc.description.abstract

This paper presents an account of the role of Tim O'Reilly, both as an individual and as a corporate entity (O'Reilly Group), in the creation, spread and use of the concept of Web 2.0. It demonstrates that, whatever Web 2.0's current uses to describe variously the technologies, politics, commerce or social meaning of the Internet, it originates as a deliberately open signifier of novel and potential Internet development in the mid-2000s. The paper argues that O'Reilly has promoted the diversity of the term's meanings and uses - celebrating textual liberties - but has also emphasised the special role that O'Reilly plays in providing the authoritative definition of that term. In essence, O'Reilly profits from this 'control' of the idea of Web 2.0 but that, to enjoy that control O'Reilly must also allow differences in meaning. The paper concludes by suggesting that Web 2.0 therefore signifies a new kind of economics that brings together freedom and control in a new way.

dc.publisherInformit / RMIT University, School of Media and Communication
dc.relation.urihttp://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=942648683290831;res=IELHSS
dc.subjectWeb 2.0
dc.subjectNew Media
dc.subjectonline economics
dc.subjectInternet Studies
dc.titleTim O'Reilly and Web 2.0: The economics of memetic liberty and control
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume42
dcterms.source.number2
dcterms.source.startPage6
dcterms.source.endPage23
dcterms.source.issn1836-0645
dcterms.source.titleCommunication, Politics and Culture
curtin.departmentDepartment of Internet Studies
curtin.accessStatusOpen access


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