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Beyond international affairs, the theory of American exceptionalism also has implications for a political theory of networks. In contrast to Lovink, we maintain that in recent decades the processes of globalization have mutated from a system of control housed in a relatively small number of power hubs to a system of control infused into the

Platforms exercise “digital biopolitics” in its ultimate form: they allow us to grow our digital bodies, and then they have them.

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This perception that culture is stuck and plagued by sameness is indeed due to the omnipresence of algorithmic feeds.

Algorithmic recommendations dictate genres of culture by rewarding particular tropes with promotion in feeds, based on what immediately attracts the most attention.

The 1980s are often characterized as a period during which there was an abandonment of the merely receptive or passive role of the original television viewer. In its place, according to this version, emerged a more creative user of a far larger field of media resources, who was able to intervene purposively in the utilization of technological

placing the weight of government behind the g0v practice of hackathons through the Presidential Hackathon (PH) and a variety of supporting institutions.

objects can be algorithmically individualized.

However, these systems have an unfortunate tendency to concentrate power often excessively,