Design. Pim. CyberDemocracy: Internet and the Public Sphere. CyberDemocracy: Internet and the Public Sphere Mark Poster University of California, Irvine Copyright(c) Mark Poster 1995 I am an advertisement for a version of myself. David Byrne The Stakes of the Question The discussion of the political impact of the Internet has focussed on a number of issues: access, technological determinism, encryption, commodification, intellectual property, the public sphere, decentralization, anarchy, gender and ethnicity. The issue of commodification also affords a narrow focus, often restricting the discussion of the politics of the Internet to the question of which corporation or which type of corporation will be able to obtain what amount of income from which configuration of the Internet.
Recently theorists such as Philippe LacoueLabarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy [. But there are further difficulties in establishing a position from which to recognize and analyze the cultural aspect of the Internet. Decentralized Technology The Internet as a Public Sphere ? On-wiki.net. A Case of Mutual Aid: Wikipedia, Politeness, and Perspective Taking. Joseph M. Reagle Jr. The anarchist Peter Kropotkin once wrote that “Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle” (1902). At the time, he was responding to arguments arising from Darwin's The Origin of Species: that in nature and society individual creatures ceaselessly struggle against each other for dominance. Kropotkin took pains to explain and provide examples of how animals and humans survive by cooperating with each other.
Interestingly, Kropotkin also contributed the article on anarchism to the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, a collaborative product of the Scottish Enlightenment and a precursor to the Wikipedia, a collaborative, on-line, and free encyclopedia. This paper explores the character of “mutual aid” and interdependent decision making within the Wikipedia. Wikipedia The Wikipedia is an on-line “Wiki” based encyclopedia. The Wiki changed this asymmetry by placing the editing functionality on the server. Interdependent decision-making Wikipedia disputes. Wiki Research Bibliography. Www.schtuff.com - What is Schtuff? CommunityWiki.org. Memebot Free Weblog and Wiki Hosting. Page - woot.cc. Knuth versus Email. I have been a happy man ever since January 1, 1990, when I no longer had an email address. I'd used email since about 1975, and it seems to me that 15 years of email is plenty for one lifetime.
Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration. I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don't have time for such study. On the other hand, I need to communicate with thousands of people all over the world as I write my books. I have a wonderful secretary who looks at the incoming mail and separates out anything that she knows I've been looking forward to seeing urgently. You might also try faxing me at 650-725-4671. `I don't even have an e-mail address. A note on email versus e-mail Don Knuth's home page. Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving a Semantic Web.