[Air-l] habermas on the internet

[Miguel Afonso Caetano]

Habermas isn't so outdated after all. This is what Geert Lovink has
been writing about. See his interview to mentelocale.it, an italian
online magazine:
http://www.networkcultures.org/geert/interview-for-mentelocaleit-daniele-miggino/.
The question is how to answer to this profudance of information, with
a torrent of rss feeds, social networks and emails coming in
permanently without reintroducing a gatekeeper.  Digg.com, Kuro5hin,
in this sense, are exemplary because they let everybody be gatekeepers
and create open gatekeeping communities. But there should be new and
better tools to provide a truly open edition model. The concept of Web
2.0 can be of some help in here. But I'm suspicious that this is just
a new fad in order to boost Internet economy.

Miguel Caetano

2006/3/28, Jeremy Hunsinger <jhuns at vt.edu>:
> "Use of the Internet has both broadened and fragmented the contexts
> of communication. This is why the Internet can have a subversive
> effect on intellectual life in authoritarian regimes. But at the same
> time, the less formal, horizontal cross-linking of communication
> channels weakens the achievements of traditional media. This focuses
> the attention of an anonymous and dispersed public on select topics
> and information, allowing citizens to concentrate on the same
> critically filtered issues and journalistic pieces at any given time.
> The price we pay for the growth in egalitarianism offered by the
> Internet is the decentralised access to unedited stories. In this
> medium, contributions by intellectuals lose their power to create a
> focus."
>
>  From Habermas's  Kreisky prize lecture printed in Der Standard March
> 10-11 translated in part in signandsight.com.   thoughts?
>
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