When the Party becomes a Platform

Dear net-timers, Around the world and Europe in particular we are witnessing to a rapid transformation of political parties. Political parties seemed to be among the most impervious to the change ushered by the digital revolution, that has transformed for good or worse almost all aspects of our li

Re: When the Party becomes a Platform

On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 03:13:38PM +, Paolo Gerbaudo wrote: > What is remarkable about these formations, is the way > they seem to adapt to the political sphere the data-driven business model > of Facebook, Amazon and Google. In an utterly naive way from what I see.. even leaders of the new le

Michael Sontheimer: Ecuador sours on Assange (Financial Review, Australia)

A nice round-up of julian A's current preddicament. Does not look very positive. My hunch is still that Assange has fallen into the purview of Mueller's investigation. Original to: https://www.afr.com/news/world/europe/a-wornout-welcome-ecuadorian-embassy-sours-on-julian-assange-20181202-h18m

Re: When the Party becomes a Platform

The deep servility of so called intellectuals towards underlying propositions of the fingerish ... I mean digital is fascinating (while paying lip service to 'outrage' regarding ephemeral surface effects.) Their superficial understanding of machine systems, and latching onto popular mythologie

Re: When the Party becomes a Platform

The medium is the politics. The medium is the ideology. Content is irrelevant. Around the world and Europe in particular we are witnessing to a rapid transformation of political parties. Political parties seemed to be among the most impervious to the change ushered by the digital revolution, th

cellular

It seems, based on energy invested in passionate discourses in forums by otherwise intelligent people, that there is little understanding of cellularity of machine-mediated communications. The amount of cross-talk, which is essential for spreading ideas to wider audiences, is near-zero. The pe

Re: cellular

To add: books are not really working as a broadcast vehicle any more. Books are advertized to targeted set audiences - authors will often create a set for the purpose. Bookstores use algorithms to populate shelves, and specialize in audiences. The remaining niche are used book stores, which ten

Re: When the Party becomes a Platform [Incident: 181213-015157]

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The Geert thing

Dear Geert, Please publish your official veteran-approved nettime posting guidelines so that you can be spared from having to do ad hominem outbursts when you get agitated. I'll be careful not to violate them. I would also like to ask the wider nettime audience - not the 6 veterans - about a