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[15 Jun 2009 | No Comment | 530 views]

Geert Lovink, one of the premier theorists of new media and network culture, has posted a set of “Web 2.0 Theses,” puncturing the ethos and mythology the surrounds Web 2.0 and contemporary internet fetishism.
Here’s my quick summary, but I encourage you to read the full text:
0. The internet turns out to be neither the problem nor the solution for the global recession.
1. Web 2.0 applications and platforms remain ‘new’ but show a tendency to get lost inside the boring, stressful and uncertain working life of the connected billions.
2. Social …