Collectivity and Power on the Internet

Dolata, Ulrich; Schrape, Jan-Felix

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-78414-4

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“…This trend accelerated in the 1990s when the web made the Internet accessible for less-terminal-savvy users. Nowadays, significant levels of market concentration can be observed in all layers of the Internet infrastructure (Dolata and Schrape 2018). Research into market dynamics has thus accompanied the Internet in all these stages, partially because economic policies have played a large role in shaping it (Kahn 1994), and partially because the Internet has a significant impact on the economy (Guillén and Suárez 2005).…”

Section: Main Approaches In the Study Of Internet Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

Studying Discourse in Internet Governance through Mailing-List Analysis

Oever¹,

Milan²,

Beraldo³

2020

Researching Internet Governance

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Section: Main Approaches In the Study Of Internet Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

Studying Discourse in Internet Governance through Mailing-List Analysis

Oever¹,

Milan²,

Beraldo³

2020

Researching Internet Governance

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“…The same way as by institutional procedures, self-organization can be stimulated by technical infrastructures. Dolata and Schrape (2018) describe new ways of the emergence of collective behavior based on internet infrastructures. According to them, the prerequisite is a technological infrastructure that enables the visibility of one's own action and allows feedback mechanisms -it provides social space of observable interaction.…”

Section: The Internet As Technical Infrastructure For Emerging Self-rmentioning

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“…Further self-reference, such as the established hashtag in new contexts, promotes the reflection and negotiation of shared views, goals, competencies, and principles of communities or publics. In their study, Dolata and Schrape (2018) show that on one hand, the Internet becomes the primary base of communities and social movements; on the other hand, these collectives become dependent, platform owners are gaining power and open code alone does not make an open society. The authors emphasize that technical infrastructures have a major impact on the formation of collective actors, but in addition to digital features, social organization and structuring services are still indispensable.…”

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Narrative Self-Reference and the Assessment of Knowledge

Roßmann

2018

J. sociocybern.

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The concept of narrative self-reference incorporates selected aspects of literary theory into the theory of self-referential systems. Since cybernetics and systems theory focus mainly on computer-aided metaphors and information, the narrative approach provides a better insight into meaning. Narrative self-reference is the simplified narrative self-image that reflects the system-environment relationship and thereby stabilizes the system. Because the narrative is continuously re-written, continued and entangled in different practices, it provides the flexibility against new and disappointed expectations, and the stability for accountability and planning. Theoretical examples of further institutional, technical, authoritarian and pragmatic dependencies for the constitution of psychic and social systems with means of narrative self-reference are discussed. In summary, this article reflects the negotiating power of narratives by creating system boundaries for collaboration and a common ground for the assessment of knowledge. From this perspective, “post-truth” is not a lack of scientific authority, but more a lack of the virtue of an adequate dealing with narratives.

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“…Litan and Rivlin 2001). But as the internet has matured, it seems to have also given rise to the creation of centralised service deployment models and industry consolidation (Dolata and Schrape 2018).…”

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The influence of internet architecture on centralised versus distributed internet services

Arkko

2020

Journal of Cyber Policy

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The internet evolves rapidly as innovations in technology, applications and business emerge. In some cases, the changes have also given rise to the creation of centralised service deployment models and industry consolidation. This paper focuses on the question of how internet technology and open interfaces may affect the ability to deploy services in a collaborative fashion vs in a centralised fashion. The paper presents a categorisation of factors influencing these choices and discusses these factors in the context of several case studies. Some aspects of centralisation and consolidation are direct consequences of physics. A large organisation can provide a short round-trip time to users around the globe, due to service instances in many locations. Other aspects are due to economics. For instance, network effects cause the value of a service to grow per Metcalfe's law. But technology and deployment choices also have an effect. Federated, collaborative networks with open standardised interfaces (such as email) allow multiple service providers to interact with each other. Closed systems may not allow this. Many popular social networks fall in this category. While technology is not the main driving force behind what are often business and economic decisions, awareness of technology choices makes it easier to understand the likely impacts of a chosen model.

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Collectivity and Power on the Internet

Cited by 32 publications

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Studying Discourse in Internet Governance through Mailing-List Analysis

Studying Discourse in Internet Governance through Mailing-List Analysis

Narrative Self-Reference and the Assessment of Knowledge

The influence of internet architecture on centralised versus distributed internet services

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