“Information sharing produces shared awareness among the participants, and collaborative production relies on shared creation, but collective action creates shared responsibility, by tying the user's identity to the identity of the group.”

“Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.”

“The basic capabilities of tools like Flickr reverse the old order of group activity, transforming 'gather, then share' into 'share, then gather'.”

“The low cost of aggregating information also allowed the formalization of sharing [...].”

“[C]ollaborative production is simple: no one person can take credit for what gets created, and the project could not come into being without the participation of many.”

“Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups.”

“[T]he category of 'consumer' is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity.”