Network Culture: Cultural Politics for the Information Age

Network culture explores the transformations affecting media culture with the passage from the broadcasting to the inter-networking model. It argues that physical and biological concepts of information have become crucial to understanding new forms of power in the context of digital communication; it explores the importance of protocols to the cultural formation of Internet space; it discusses the importance of the free labor of users to the digital economy and the new forms of biopower involved in a hyperconnected media environment