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Instagram, launched in 2010, might have built the bridge between the social-network era and the age of social media. It relied on the connections among users as a mechanism to distribute content as a primary activity.
That changed when social networking became social media around 2009, between the introduction of the smartphone and the launch of Instagram. Instead of connection—forging latent ties to people and organizations we would mostly ignore—social media offered platforms through which people could publish content as widely as possible, well beyond ...
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John Postill, on the research approach of networked individualism: "‘networked individualism’ = approach led by the Toronto networkanalyst Barry Wellman. Wellman has denounced the smuggling of obsolete notions ofcommunity from an earlier period of North American community studies into Internetlocalisation studies. Where the old communities had ‘str...
From the article, Bourgeois Anarchism and Authoritarian Democracies Felix Stalder : "we are entering a world of “networked individualism” where individual self–identity — both in terms of the image one has of oneself and the image others have of one — can no longer be separated from one’s position within a relational network. The notion of the netw...
From Felix Stalder: 13. Barry Wellman, 2001. “Physical place and cyberplace: The rise of personalized networking,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, volume 25, number 2, pp. 227–252; see also Manuel Castells, 2001. Internet galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, business, and society. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 14. Kristóf N...
Another approach to internet localization studies is Community InformaticsWellman, B., A. Quan-Hasse, J. Boase, W. Chen, K. Hampton, I.I. de Diaz, et al. (2003) ‘The Social Affordances of the Internet for Networked Individualism’, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communicati...But I’ll venture a guess: 1) It is intrinsically global. More to the point, it is geographically unconstrained, and, therefore able to take advantage of any attention and energy anywhere in the world. 2) It is intrinsically virtual. In other words, it is able to connect with resources anywhere with minimal lag and at minimal cost.
Facebook offers us a social utility to deepen social connectivity with our existing social graphs, while these new interest-based social networks enable users to express their interests in new, engaging ways and offer authentic, high value connectivity with new people we don’t already know.
For the digital portion of a network state, when the founder sells it to an acquirer, it's like selling Instagram to Facebook. The digital logins of the two services are integrated and citizens in each network state now have access to the other's apps and physical territory.
As I see it, there are three main strategies being deployed. All have their strength and weaknesses, and I then conclude with the positioning of the P2P Foundation in that field. 1. First there are the hackers and their continuous attempt to create alternative infrastructures and to connect them to each other.
