@article{Stalder_1999, title={Beyond portals and gifts: Towards a bottom-up net-economy}, volume={4}, url={https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/639}, DOI={10.5210/fm.v4i1.639}, abstractNote={The Internet is haunted by its own promise: the liberation of information. Typically, this promise is a strange hybrid of 60’s progressive libertarianism and 90’s aggressive venture capitalism. The slogan "information wants to be free" still shapes the dynamics of on-line content consumption and production. The results: America Online and Netscape merge and the high-tech gift economy flourishes.}, number={1}, journal={First Monday}, author={Stalder, Felix}, year={1999}, month={Jan.} }