Radical media technology and democratic structure mutually require each other

Evidence

Pickard writes, “In the case of Indymedia, the technology and institutional structure are mutually constitutive. Undoing one would disable the other … the radical openness of Indymedia’s technology is predicated on a radical demo cratic institutional structure; this structure could not exist without internet communications, especially on the global network level.” Participatory publishing software and FOSS allowed IMC members to live the principles of anti-globalization activism in day-to-day life. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 104

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Media-code structure makes revolutions and radical redistribution impossible; Activist technology and institutional structure are mutually constitutive, not separable — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 104; Low-cost digital expression pulverizes radical politics in the absence of parties. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization…, 24 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Activist technology and institutional structure are mutually constitutive, not separable #corroborates (0.95) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 104
• Media-code structure makes revolutions and radical redistribution impossible #contradicts (0.80)
• Low-cost digital expression pulverizes radical politics in the absence of parties. #contradicts (0.75) — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 24
• Cheap online expression fragments rather than empowers radical politics #contradicts (0.75) — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 24