[p2p-research] The Internet Is Absolute Democracy - Be VeryAfraid!

[Wittel, Andreas]

also, first claims about an increase in democracy due to the internet have always been labeled as naive and techno-deterministic. seems that now the debate moves on to the next stage. from ridiculing these claims towards an expression of real fear that this democratization could happen indeed.

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From: p2presearch-bounces at listcultures.org on behalf of Michel Bauwens
Sent: Thu 23/04/2009 09:08
To: M. Fioretti
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Subject: Re: [p2p-research] The Internet Is Absolute Democracy - Be VeryAfraid!


hmm ... the classic critique about the internet was its fragmentation and lack of unified public space,

now they're saying everybody thinks the same on the internet?

Michel


On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:51 AM, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:


	"Bob Thompson, professor of popular culture at Syracuse University...
	is concerned about the Internet's corrosive impact on "the precarious
	nature of authority. It's potentially dangerous. It's a complete
	democratization of information where unverified knowledge is often the
	result of our own emotional state"
	
	http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-alderman/the-internet-is-absolute_b_190099.html
	
	I instinctively _feel_ this is connected somehow with recent threads
	about the dangers of iperconnectivity, ie the lack of evolution inside
	systems where everybody thinks the same thing thanks to the Internt,
	through I still have to work out how.
	
	marco
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