#screencultures — Public Fediverse posts
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"If the reading revolution represented the greatest transfer of knowledge to ordinary men and women in history, the screen revolution represents the
greatest theft of knowledge from ordinary people in history." ―James Marriott, "The Dawn of the Postliterate Society" https://jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-of-the-post-literate-society-aa1It is not because of screens in themselves. It is due to the structure that was gradually applied to the World Wide Web from about 2005 as corporations took control of what was a public space prior to that.
In a sense the Internet was 'enclosed' in the same ways the Scottish Highlands and the Commons of England were in the 18th century. In the case of the World Wide Web, public common space was taken away from ordinary people and mostly given to wealthy corporations and people. These wealthy interests didn't even have to pay for it as they achieved it through a powerful coordinated campaign that involved copyright, streaming, intellectual property and proprietary rights and litigation.
The result of the corporate encloser of the World Wide Web is a devastating degree of intellectual and cultural impoverishment. That is what we are seeing now.
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"If the reading revolution represented the greatest transfer of knowledge to ordinary men and women in history, the screen revolution represents the
greatest theft of knowledge from ordinary people in history." ―James Marriott, "The Dawn of the Postliterate Society" https://jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-of-the-post-literate-society-aa1It is not because of screens in themselves. It is due to the structure that was gradually applied to the World Wide Web from about 2005 as corporations took control of what was a public space prior to that.
In a sense the Internet was 'enclosed' in the same ways the Scottish Highlands and the Commons of England were in the 18th century. In the case of the World Wide Web, public common space was taken away from ordinary people and mostly given to wealthy corporations and people. These wealthy interests didn't even have to pay for it as they achieved it through a powerful coordinated campaign that involved copyright, streaming, intellectual property and proprietary rights and litigation.
The result of the corporate encloser of the World Wide Web is a devastating degree of intellectual and cultural impoverishment. That is what we are seeing now.
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"If the reading revolution represented the greatest transfer of knowledge to ordinary men and women in history, the screen revolution represents the
greatest theft of knowledge from ordinary people in history." ―James Marriott, "The Dawn of the Postliterate Society" https://jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-of-the-post-literate-society-aa1It is not because of screens in themselves. It is due to the structure that was gradually applied to the World Wide Web from about 2005 as corporations took control of what was a public space prior to that.
In a sense the Internet was 'enclosed' in the same ways the Scottish Highlands and the Commons of England were in the 18th century. In the case of the World Wide Web, public common space was taken away from ordinary people and mostly given to wealthy corporations and people. These wealthy interests didn't even have to pay for it as they achieved it through a powerful coordinated campaign that involved copyright, streaming, intellectual property and proprietary rights and litigation.
The result of the corporate encloser of the World Wide Web is a devastating degree of intellectual and cultural impoverishment. That is what we are seeing now.
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"If the reading revolution represented the greatest transfer of knowledge to ordinary men and women in history, the screen revolution represents the
greatest theft of knowledge from ordinary people in history." ―James Marriott, "The Dawn of the Postliterate Society" https://jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-of-the-post-literate-society-aa1It is not because of screens in themselves. It is due to the structure that was gradually applied to the World Wide Web from about 2005 as corporations took control of what was a public space prior to that.
In a sense the Internet was 'enclosed' in the same ways the Scottish Highlands and the Commons of England were in the 18th century. In the case of the World Wide Web, public common space was taken away from ordinary people and mostly given to wealthy corporations and people. These wealthy interests didn't even have to pay for it as they achieved it through a powerful coordinated campaign that involved copyright, streaming, intellectual property and proprietary rights and litigation.
The result of the corporate encloser of the World Wide Web is a devastating degree of intellectual and cultural impoverishment. That is what we are seeing now.
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"If the reading revolution represented the greatest transfer of knowledge to ordinary men and women in history, the screen revolution represents the
greatest theft of knowledge from ordinary people in history." ―James Marriott, "The Dawn of the Postliterate Society" https://jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-of-the-post-literate-society-aa1It is not because of screens in themselves. It is due to the structure that was gradually applied to the World Wide Web from about 2005 as corporations took control of what was a public space prior to that.
In a sense the Internet was 'enclosed' in the same ways the Scottish Highlands and the Commons of England were in the 18th century. In the case of the World Wide Web, public common space was taken away from ordinary people and mostly given to wealthy corporations and people. These wealthy interests didn't even have to pay for it as they achieved it through a powerful coordinated campaign that involved copyright, streaming, intellectual property and proprietary rights and litigation.
The result of the corporate encloser of the World Wide Web is a devastating degree of intellectual and cultural impoverishment. That is what we are seeing now.