Burning Man is a physical counterpart to the open, collaborative Internet ethos

Evidence

In many ways, Burning Man is a physical representation of Web 2.0 principles of openness, collaboration, and self-expression. Co-founder Larry Harvey told personal homepager Jessica Barron that “this environment we’ve created is a physical analog of the Internet. It’s radically demo cratic. It allows people to conjure up entire worlds—like websites—voila! Out of nothing!” Brewster Kahle, the founder of the Internet Archive and long-time Burner, told C|Net that “The communities are very interchangeable … There’s a great deal of overlap; the open aspects of the Internet and Burning Man come from the same place. Burning Man and the Internet … disproved the 1980s myth that people will only do something if they’re paid for it.” — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 138

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s broader Web 2.0 and self-branding argument; also links to Silicon Valley’s founder culture and its rituals of unpaid, gift-economy labor. — connects to: Burning Man grew from San Francisco counterculture into a consensus-seeking festival — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 136; Burning Man models the ideals and labor structures of tech culture — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 139; Burning Man supplies Silicon Valley with an ideal of non-commodified collaborative labor. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 139

Broader Connections

• Burning Man models the ideals and labor structures of tech culture #corroborates (0.85) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 139
• Burning Man supplies Silicon Valley with an ideal of non-commodified collaborative labor. #expands (0.82) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 139