Comments on: Social Media World = Pre Gutenberg? http://www.civics21.org/index.php/2010/04/07/social-media-world-pre-gutenberg/ On cities and citizenship in the 21st Century Wed, 20 Oct 2010 23:21:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Michael http://www.civics21.org/index.php/2010/04/07/social-media-world-pre-gutenberg/comment-page-1/#comment-216 Michael Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:27:32 +0000 http://www.civics21.org/?p=262#comment-216 Social media = Pre-Gutenberg. I think this is a great thesis. It hits the point, if you try to predict how internet is going change our societies. Personally I'm not especially keen on a regime based on "1to1 dialogues", offering only rumours and individual experiences as a benchmark for truth or reality. Social media support nothing than the return of a regime of clans, of non-representative, non-legitimated and non-transparent authorities. But sadly this is exactly where technology-driven internet ideology, being affirmative and uncritical to every digital innovation (mistaken as "progress") is taking us. In fact: prepare to wake up in the 15th century - with all these Schmidts and Jobs and Zuckerbergs being privatized Popes. Want to understand more? Read Marshall MacLuhan! Social media = Pre-Gutenberg.
I think this is a great thesis. It hits the point, if you try to predict how internet is going change our societies.
Personally I’m not especially keen on a regime based on “1to1 dialogues”, offering only rumours and individual experiences as a benchmark for truth or reality. Social media support nothing than the return of a regime of clans, of non-representative, non-legitimated and non-transparent authorities.
But sadly this is exactly where technology-driven internet ideology, being affirmative and uncritical to every digital innovation (mistaken as “progress”) is taking us.

In fact: prepare to wake up in the 15th
century – with all these Schmidts and Jobs and Zuckerbergs being privatized Popes. Want to understand more? Read Marshall MacLuhan!

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