The last word for now on Tables I.1 and I.2 and Figure I.1 relates to the
concept of the “social ecology of information,” an idea that I appropriate
mainly from Yochai Benkler’s (2006) account of the expanding diversity of media and informational forms that are created for reasons other than money
and pro! t. The “social ecology of information” has no direct, measurable
economic value but instead should be seen as sitting in the background of the
network media, ICTs, and telecoms domains as well as straddling both the
market and nonmarket areas of life.