Web 2.0 ideology fuses incompatible hacker-openness and free-market values

Evidence

These beliefs, which draw heavily from hacker and free and open-source software (FOSS) development, are on their face antithetical to the libertarian, free-market ethos of entrepreneurial capitalism that also characterizes Web 2.0. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 52

Categorization

• XREF: This internal contradiction in Web 2.0 discourse resonates with Barbrook and Cameron’s Californian Ideology essay and later critiques that social media freedom rhetoric masked commercial enclosure. — connects to: Web 2.0 ideology fuses 1960s counterculture with pro-capitalist techno-determinism — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 41; Web 2.0 openness ideology serves corporate profit over individual benefit — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 640; Web 2.0 ideology diluted hacker radicalism through Silicon Valley orthodoxy. (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Web 2.0 ideology fuses Silicon Valley capitalism with countercultural activism while embracing capitalism #expands (0.90) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 55
• Web 2.0 openness ideology serves corporate profit over individual benefit #expands (0.85) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 640
• Web 2.0 ideology diluted hacker radicalism through Silicon Valley orthodoxy. #qualifies (0.80)
• Silicon Valley orthodoxy dampened Web 2.0’s radical transformative political potential. #exemplifies (0.75) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 110