Thanks for your contribution, Ulises. This statement particularly resonated: "<meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; border-collapse: collapse; ">Authority in the participatory culture operates not by threatening to expel us from the network, but by making it difficult to resist participating in the network in the first place. The more one participates in digital networks, the more totalizing this form of authority becomes."</span><br>
<br><div>Participation=good. Non-participation=bad. At least that is how it is generally cast. What are your thoughts on the "totalizing...form of authority" in relation to Jacques Ellul's technification of society? Technology in the form of the printing press permitting society to scale information. Technology in the form of social media is permitting society to scale socialization. Is the core concern not in your statement one of technology (based on Ellul's definition of technique as "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">a means of apprehending reality, of acting on the world, which allows us to neglect all individual differences, all subjectivity."</span>, rather than the network?</div>
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