Comments on: Network Society course (VIII). Andrew Rasiej: Communication in the Network Society (II)

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By: Ismael Peña-López

Ismael Peña-López — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:37:54 +0000

Sorry about it, Ricard: an example of the trade-off between being synthetic and being accurate when liveblogging :)

By: ruizdequerol

ruizdequerol — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:10:25 +0000

I would phrase my question in a slightly different way as recorded by Ismael:

Josu Jon Imaz suggested that networks come first, and then Internet is an instrument. If someone has got what it takes to form a network, then Internet is the logical, uselful, ‘you-can’t-do-without’ tool. If you form part of this network, or want to form part of this network, and you don’t enough the Internet, you’ll learn; you’ll do whatever you need to do to learn.

I feel it does not feel the other way around. You might know a lot about the Internet, but don’t care at all about working on a network. At least, not in a network like the ones described this morning. In fact, a lot of people do so.

Is this a typical ‘chicken and egg’ situation? Or, quite to the contrary, in this case the chicken (the network) precedes the egg (the network on the Internet). And then, as you haver more eggs …