Doug, It sounds like you're aware of the internet being solely corporate-dominated.
If we had proof that someone were algorithmically ensuring that the internet stayed corporate-dominated, do you know of a way to preserve and possibly publicize such proof? On Tue, May 5, 2020, 11:49 AM Doug Schuler <[email protected]> wrote: > Technology absolutely has politics since it's embedded within social (and > material) contexts. I like Langdon's quote in the Whale and the Reactor: > "Because choices tend to become strongly fixed in material equipment, > economic investment, and social habit, the original flexibility vanishes > for all practical purposes once the initial commitments are made." > > On the other hand, technology is not strictly deterministic. A hospital > can be used to help heal people or it can be used to imprison them and to > perform experiments on them. Television doesn't have to be a solely > corporate dominated medium nor does the internet — but they are. > > — Doug > > > > On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 7:39 AM Aram Sinnreich <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> What do you make of Langdon Winner's work, arguing that sociotechnical >> artifacts have inherent "politics?" >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> > On May 5, 2020, at 10:33 AM, grarpamp <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Technology is but an agnostic tool. >> > There is no such thing as a liberation tech, >> > only applied tech via paths toward something. >> > One cannot apply a tech toward liberation >> > without first considering what a state of being >> > of actual liberation might variously be about, >> > to know where to go, what to make with the tech. >> > Democracy being nothing more than a >> > decentralized form of the murderous dictators >> > many claim to be liberating themselves or people from, >> > both forms hardly a state of liberation at all, >> > yet worshipped and profferred by all too many, >> > we therefore continue this random series >> > on path choices... >> > >> > How to be a tyrant. Sound Familiar? >> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4LtEciQUF8 >> > >> > Deep Divers, let the balloon go! >> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbX-Bvb2u_w >> > >> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U3lEc-IFr8 >> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWLntHoTgDA >> > >> > -- >> > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable from any major >> commercial search engine. Violations of list guidelines will get you >> moderated: https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/lt. Unsubscribe, >> change to digest mode, or change password by emailing >> [email protected]. >> >> -- >> Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable from any major >> commercial search engine. Violations of list guidelines will get you >> moderated: https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/lt. Unsubscribe, >> change to digest mode, or change password by emailing >> [email protected]. > > > > -- > Douglas Schuler > [email protected] > Twitter: @doug_schuler > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Public Sphere Project > http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ > > Mailing list ~ Collective Intelligence for the Common Good > * http://lists.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci > <http://lists.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci>4cg-announce* > > Creating the World Citizen Parliament > > http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament > > Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution > (project) > http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/lv > <http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/> > > Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution > (book) > http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11601 > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable from any major > commercial search engine. Violations of list guidelines will get you > moderated: https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/lt. Unsubscribe, > change to digest mode, or change password by emailing > [email protected].
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