in a decentralized network, where people can connect with other people who share the same beliefs and see the world similarly, the central role of the network is the construction and exchange of cultural characteristics that flow across the network ties that bind the nodes.
Marcus Collins • For the Culture
But even by the mid 1990s, the promotional retro-psychedelic euphoria had vanished, as it became clearer that though cyberspace was, in fact, a reinvention of the self, it was transnational corporations doing the reinventing and transforming.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
Intentionally or not, networked culture creates patterns of information exchange. Together, these patterns merge to form the public infrastructure on which we all come to build our own knowledge networks. But while we all may share a common current of information, the way the current gets channeled, plugged into, and illuminated is a personal affai... See more
Willa Köerner • A Personal Philosophy of Shared Knowledge
the internet complex was promoted as inherently democratic, decentralizing, and anti-hierarchical.
Jonathan Crary • Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
The Hacking of Culture and the Creation of Socio-Technical Debt - Journal #146
e-flux.com
constitutive activity of Web 2.0: sharing.