Description
Book SynopsisThe Gifting Logos: Expertise in the Digital Commons provides an extensive analysis of knowledge and creativity in twenty-first century networked culture. Analyzing massive projects like the Wayback Machine, the Internet Archive, and the Creative Commons licenses, The Gifting Logos responds to a fundamental question, What does it mean to know something and to make something? With the idea of a gifting logos, Hartelius integrates three habits of a rhetorical epistemology: the invention of cultural materials such as text, images, and software; the imbuing or encoding of the materials with the creator's experience; and the constitution and dissemination of the materials as gifts.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Commons Aggregate and the Gift
2. The Infrastructural Commons
3. The Archival Commons
4. The Popular Commons
5. The Gifting Logos
Notes
Bibliography
Index
