Too Much of a Good Thing? A Governing Knowledge Commons Review of Abundance in Context
The economics of abundance, along with the sociology of abundance, the law of abundance, and so forth, should be re-framed, linked, and situated in a common context for empirical rather than conceptual research. Abundance may seem to be a new, big thing, between anxiety over information overload, Bi...
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| author | Michael J. Madison Brett M. Frischmann Madelyn R. Sanfilippo Katherine J. Strandburg |
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| description | The economics of abundance, along with the sociology of abundance, the law of abundance, and so forth, should be re-framed, linked, and situated in a common context for empirical rather than conceptual research. Abundance may seem to be a new, big thing, between anxiety over information overload, Big Data, and related technological disruptions. But scholars know that abundance is an ancient phenomenon, which only seemed to disappear as twentieth century social science focused on scarcity instead. Restoring the study of abundance, and figuring out how to solve the problems that abundance might create, means shedding disciplinary blinders and going back to basics. How does abundance, in various forms, create or alleviate social problems? We explain and illustrate how the Governing Knowledge Commons (GKC) framework provides a useful research tool to generate and test hypotheses about abundance in various economic, social, cultural, and legal settings. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-acf1e4303af445a485aec890c63b56402022-12-22T03:38:59ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics2504-05372022-07-01710.3389/frma.2022.959505959505Too Much of a Good Thing? A Governing Knowledge Commons Review of Abundance in ContextMichael J. Madison0Brett M. Frischmann1Madelyn R. Sanfilippo2Katherine J. Strandburg3School of Law, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesCharles Widger Endowed University Professor, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, Villanova, PA, United StatesUniversity of Illinois School of Information Sciences, Champaign, IL, United StatesAlfred E. Engelberg Professor of Law, School of Law, New York University, New York, NY, United StatesThe economics of abundance, along with the sociology of abundance, the law of abundance, and so forth, should be re-framed, linked, and situated in a common context for empirical rather than conceptual research. Abundance may seem to be a new, big thing, between anxiety over information overload, Big Data, and related technological disruptions. But scholars know that abundance is an ancient phenomenon, which only seemed to disappear as twentieth century social science focused on scarcity instead. Restoring the study of abundance, and figuring out how to solve the problems that abundance might create, means shedding disciplinary blinders and going back to basics. How does abundance, in various forms, create or alleviate social problems? We explain and illustrate how the Governing Knowledge Commons (GKC) framework provides a useful research tool to generate and test hypotheses about abundance in various economic, social, cultural, and legal settings.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frma.2022.959505/fullabundancescarcityknowledge commonssocial dilemmasinstitutional analysisinformation |
| spellingShingle | Michael J. Madison Brett M. Frischmann Madelyn R. Sanfilippo Katherine J. Strandburg Too Much of a Good Thing? A Governing Knowledge Commons Review of Abundance in Context Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics abundance scarcity knowledge commons social dilemmas institutional analysis information |
| title | Too Much of a Good Thing? A Governing Knowledge Commons Review of Abundance in Context |
| title_full | Too Much of a Good Thing? A Governing Knowledge Commons Review of Abundance in Context |
| title_fullStr | Too Much of a Good Thing? A Governing Knowledge Commons Review of Abundance in Context |
| title_full_unstemmed | Too Much of a Good Thing? A Governing Knowledge Commons Review of Abundance in Context |
| title_short | Too Much of a Good Thing? A Governing Knowledge Commons Review of Abundance in Context |
| title_sort | too much of a good thing a governing knowledge commons review of abundance in context |
| topic | abundance scarcity knowledge commons social dilemmas institutional analysis information |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frma.2022.959505/full |
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