Digital hyperconnectivity — the condition in which nearly everyone and everything is connected to everyone and everything else, everywhere and all the time — has colonized the self, recast social interactions, reorganized the public sphere, revolutionized economic life and converted the whole of human culture into an unending stream of digital con

Every network, if it starts with a focused atomic network, has a concept like “netiquette.” There’s a shared context in the early years of what you should and shouldn’t do within a network—a culture. But eventually that becomes susceptible to a collapse in context, which is a subtle and unique problem to networked products.

Inexpensive and user-friendly digital tools for manipulating text, images and sounds — think Photoshop or GarageBand — have dramatically broadened access to the means of cultural production and blurred the lines between amateurs and professionals. But the question is not just how many people engage in cultural production — it’s how people engage.&