The Internet as a Normative Device for Cultural Practices

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Author(s): Paul Mathias (Collège International de Philosophie, France)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 9
Source title: Ethical Governance of Emerging Technologies Development
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Fernand Doridot (Centre for Ethics, Technics and Society (CETS), ICAM of Lille, FRANCE), Penny Duquenoy (Middlesex University, UK), Philippe Goujon (Laboratory for Ethical Governance of Information Technology ,Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Belgium), Aygen Kurt (Middlesex University and LSE, UK), Sylvain Lavelle (Institut Catholique des Arts et Métiers of Lille, France), Norberto Patrignani (Universita' Cattolica di Milano, Italy), Stephen Rainey (Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Belgium)and Alessia Santuccio (Universita' Cattolica di Milano, Italy)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3670-5.ch016

Keywords: Information Science Reference / IT Governance / IT Security and Ethics / Library & Information Science

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This paper aims to show that the Internet is not just a technical pattern and a normative framework aimed at producing and enacting otherwise defined cultural experiences. Information and communication technologies are complex programmed and interrelated functions eventually realised in the form of a cultural ecosystem – the Internet as such – and they do not simply form a web of industrially organised devices and services. It is then wrong to say that networks crush our minds and that nowadays acculturation prevails. The Internet is a cultural matrix generating new forms of meaningful interactions through the permanent and pervasive interconnectedness it allows for.

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