From Joseph Nechvatal:
I don't know if you are familiar with this new
book by Yale law professor Yochai Benkler, The Wealth
of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets
and Freedom. Its theorizing of the "networked public
sphere" is particularly interesting. Also, it factors in
economics and culture along with the political. This
online version is made available under a Creative
Commons Noncommercial Sharealike license:

http://habitat.igc.org/wealth-of-networks/