New Communities
Micropolitics
Well, this week topic will be micropilitcs, and new communities it is creating.
Living in the world where technology is everything, new media platforms are the ones that create new communities. It gives us opportunity to explore new ways to communicate online and to explore new areas of effectiveness of it.
File sharing is one of the current new micropolitical organisations. Thomas Jellis staes that micropolitics are "creation of techniques for collaboration, involve experimentation and an openness to be experimental...[it] offers apoint of departure for a new kind of politics". One of the examples of that wold be ThePirateBay. It emphasize the idea of collaboration, as ussers are able to download media through the metadata of other users . However, at the same time it is very rebellious against macropolitics, enhances global cooperation as the Internet connects a huge ammount of users and information.
Douglas Rushkoff brings a very interesting point , he states that government is able to control Internet and can "turn it off", he brings examples of the "corporate-government banishment of Wikileaks last year...[the] Egypt[ian government]shutting off its networks to stave off revolution...the Obama administration seeking the ability to do pretty much the same thing n the US, Facebook's "sponsored stories", and the pending loss of net neutrality". This brings the idea that Internet is a part of macropolitics, the existance of it and its growth depends on the government. However, in my opinion, no matter how many online communities will be "turn off" , the new ones will appear instantly.
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