Structures of Participation in Digital CultureJoe Karaganis Digital technologies are engines of cultural innovation, from the virtualization of group networks and social identities to the digital convergence of textural and audio-visual media. User-centered content production, from Wikipedia and YouTube to Open Source, has become the emblem of this transformation, but the changes run deeper and wider than these novel organizational forms. Digital culture is also about the transformation of what it means to be a creator within a vast and growing reservoir of media, data, computational power, and communicative possibilities. We have few tools and models for understanding the power of databases, network representations, filtering techniques, digital rights management, and other new architectures of agency and control. We have even fewer accounts of how these new capacities have transformed our shared cultures and our understanding of and capacities to act within them. This volume addresses these issues and supplies the demand for a comprehensive critical framework that places these developments in context. |
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... relationship with the past . Its final results are unclear : The " save every- thing " mentality of the early days has already been replaced by the " save the minimal legal set " mentality of many companies and individuals today . At ...
... relationship types and contexts into the ubiquitous " Friend . " More problematically , Friendster does not provide ways of mapping or interpreting the contextual cues and social structural boundaries that help people manage their ...
... relationships . Among other things , Friendster demonstrates the inverse relationship between the scale of social networks and the quality of the relations within them - a relationship rooted in the limits of human time and attention ...