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februari 04, 2004
Smart Mobs: The Net, the Dean campaign, and Technological Determinism
Smart Mobs: The Net, the Dean campaign, and Technological Determinism skriver en påminnare:
We reify things when we assign a name to a phenomenon or abstraction that really isn't a thing. Like "nature" or "history." Or "The Internet."
The Internet is not a thing that can be suspected as the cause of positive or negative change. It is a communication medium that affords certain ranges of action to humans; the Internet can and does interconnect devices, but we wouldn't be talking about it (or blogging, for that matter), if the Internet was not used for social communication.
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We need to examine the way we use technologies, and that certainly includes understanding what kinds of actions technologies afford, amplify, disguise, prevent. We should ask "how are the ways people using the Internet changing political campaigns?" It's a far more important question than "how is the Internet changing political campaigns?
Posted by hakank at februari 4, 2004 11:51 FM Posted to Diverse