Image: Network World
Space, Networks, and Communications
Personnel networks, connections with others, and communication have
changed with the emergence of democracies in continental Europe after the
French revolution in 1789. Societies were encouraged to connect with each other
in public spheres, and openly discuss critical topics of interests. German
Sociologist, Jürgen Habermas, is responsible for providing a phrase, "The
structural transformation of the public Sphere". He argued that mass media
is transforming the public sphere and will result in its breakdown. Bourgeois
society would meet in coffee houses, bistros, and critically debate topics of
interest openly. "A theater in modern societies in which political
participation is enacted through the medium of talk" ( Fraser 1990, p.25). This personal networks interaction with people
exercising a democratic debate at a coffee club environment was limited.
A new mass
media phenomenon, created in 2004 with Facebook, originally for Harvard
students, "now hosts over 850 million users" (McNeil 2012). Facebook
users are exercising via this internet network platform a democratic free right
of free speech. Daily users of Facebook are providing extensive information of
personal information. This freely provided, by the user, information can be a
useful marketing tool for any operating host network that is designed to become part of a user’s daily
routine. Users are engaging in democratic exchange to debate
topics, ranging from general information and worldwide events, to confidential
personal issues to the banal. “Certain kinds of networked narratives power is
held by corporate for-profit interests, contributing to breakdown of true
participatory democracy” (Kuttainen, 2016). Advances with introduction of
digital technology have changed network narratives. Digital communication is
providing access in real time around the global sphere were networking is instant
from the comfort of a lounge chair at the writer’s home.
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References:
Image, Network World: Kristen
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Kuttainen, V.
(2016). BA1002: Our space: Networks, narratives, and the making of place,
lecture 6:
Networked Narratives
[power point]. Retrieved from https//learnjcu.jcu.edu.au.
McNeil, L. (2012)
There is no “I” in Network: Social networking sites and posthuman
auto/biography. Biography, Volume 35, Number 1, Winter 2012, pp.65-82.
DOI: 10.1353/BIO.2012.0009
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