[NetBehaviour] Temporality of online spaces

[Mayke Blom]

First of all, a late response but thank you for the overwhelming response
about art and games from my last request.

second,
*Temporality of the online space:*

This actually came to mind when you notice the large amount of temporary
communities that have risen and fallen throughout the lifespan of the
internet. As ideas and (consequently) technology or vice versa, spaces are
quickly erased, updated or replaced by what counts as the more popular mode
in which users are quick to engage with. Whatever get left behind, is
archived by cultural collectors or lost completely within broken links or
deleted files.

I find it interesting in that the internet behaves as a sort of collective
brain, and the lost content can be perceived as irrelevant or discarded
memories and active communities and current information as new and learned
information within a collective consciousness.

However, I understand that this information is not always new and is often
recycled content that is represented within a different context, or how the
internet is often anesthetized as a collective consciousness but on a
practical level is a tool for information sharing and  collection.

I think there's an overall feeling that people contributing to a temporal
collective consciousness (I think-could also be regarded as current popular
opinions) are unstable and are under a constant state of flux and level of
uncertainty due to which the speed at which information is being produced
and shared...

Is this instability (of changing information and technologies) more
manageable in a sense that it has a certain role to play on producing more
stable systems of communities and technological process?


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Mayke Blom.
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