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| Internet: The internet is a global network of interconnected computers that use a standard protocol suite to link several billion devices worldwide. The internet is the infrastructure that allows the World Wide Web to exist. The World Wide Web is the totality of content published in the internet. This means that emails, for example, are not part of the WWW. See also World Wide Web, Email, Social Media, Internet culture._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Evgeny Morozov on Internet - Dictionary of Arguments
I 14 Internet/Morozov: The physical infrastructure we know as "the Internet" bears little resemblance to the mythical "Internet" - the one that supposedly brought down the governments of Tunisia and Egypt and supposedly destroyed our brains - which is at the heart of our public debates. The infrastructure and design of this network of networks play a certain role in sanctioning many of these myths - for example, the idea that the Internet is "resistant to censorship" comes from the unique qualities of its packet-conveying communication mechanism - but "the Internet", which is the curse of public debates, also contains many other stories and tales - about innovation, surveillance, capitalism - that have little to do with infrastructure per se. >Networks, >Social Media, >Social Networks. I 15 I want to understand why and how iTunes or Wikipedia - some of the mythical core elements of the "Internet" - have become role models for thinking about the future of politics. How have Zynga and Facebook become role models for thinking about civic engagement? I 38 Knowledge/Internet/Morozov: the Internet itself does not change anything about what counts as knowledge. >Knowledge/Weinberger, MorozovVsWeinberger. (1) I 208 Internet/Morozov:"the Internet" is the result of our world - not its cause. >Lifeworld. 1. David Weinberger, Too Big to Know (New York: Basic Books, 2012)_____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Morozov I Evgeny Morozov To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism New York 2014 |
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