Power/play: Discussion of Configuring the Networked Self

First things first: it is an honor to have my work receive such close attention from such distinguished and busy colleagues. I deeply appreciate the time, effort, and generosity that have gone into the preparation of the four review essays in this volume.

Configuring the Networked Self represents my effort to draw attention to the limits of the conceptual toolkit customarily used in legal scholarship on information law and policy, which draws heavily on the tradition of liberal individualism. The book demonstrates the potential of a different, methodologically hybrid approach to information law and policy questions, one that draws on a broad array of resources from contemporary social theory to illuminate the individual experience of the networked information...