User:Emily/NOTES for Own Research & Resource 11
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INTRODUCTION: CAPTUREING WEB 2.0 BEFORE ITS DISAPPEARANCE
- once the internet changed the world; now the world is changing the internet.
- internet's mainstreaming is well and truly over
- participatory crows in a situation full of tension and conflict
- privacy violations
- Net neutrality and Wikileaks --> friction-free days of "multi-stakeholder" governance(NGOs, WSIS) are now over
- collaping liberatarian consensus model
- Internet regulators --> defense mode
- the notion of the internet as an excdeptional, unregulated sphere evaporates
- a distributed (many to many) communication --> overcome the aymmetries of top-down broadcast media and even representative democracy itself
- at first, internet appeared to solve many of the long-standing shortcomings of the old "public sphere"
- citizen journalism - for critical imagination
- online petitions?decision making
- detached engagement --> Jodi Dean argues that a new form of "communicative capitalism" has emerged, where discourse proliferates but is completely devoid of genuine political potency
- echo chambers-->group of like-minded individuals, consciously or not, avoid debate with their cultural or political adversaries
- society has now caught up with the internet and disrupted the techno dreams of cyberspace as a parallel virtual reality
- technology culture is heading: increasingly, it's about everthing
- the internet as a project with a distinct set of protocols separate from our daily lives, with their existing conflicts and ambivalent circumstances, has lost its sense and purpose
- new media continue to clash with existing social and political structures, ??as corporations and traditional knowledge institutions face the disruptive implications of networking??
