{"id":539,"date":"2009-02-01T21:03:59","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T02:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=539"},"modified":"2009-02-01T21:05:55","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T02:05:55","slug":"wiki-virtue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2009\/02\/01\/wiki-virtue\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiki Virtue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyu.edu\/projects\/nissenbaum\/papers\/jopp_235.pdf\">Benker and Nissenbaum<\/a> have a provocative argument for why peer production is virtuous.  Here are their two principles:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(a) that a society that provides opportunities for virtuous behavior is one that is more conducive to virtuous individuals; and (b) that the practice of effective virtuous behavior may lead to more people adopting virtues as their own, or as attributes of what they see as their self-definition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you think, does Wikipedia and YouTube contribute to a more virtuous society?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benker and Nissenbaum have a provocative argument for why peer production is virtuous. Here are their two principles: (a) that a society that provides opportunities for virtuous behavior is one that is more conducive to virtuous individuals; and (b) that the practice of effective virtuous behavior may lead to more people adopting virtues as their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[595,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obama-fisa-deliberative-democracy-web20-techpresident-ruffini","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}