Web 2.0 openness ideology serves corporate profit over individual benefit
Evidence
Due to the imprecision of these controls and the new levels of inference possible with aggregated social information, however, it is often impossible to avoid drama in a community where social life exists both on and offline, and where information sharing is a normative behavior. Further, while the Web 2.0 culture may frame this sharing within a discourse of freedom and democracy, we must remember that the profit models of social media depend on user-contributed information. Perhaps not surprisingly then, the models of openness idealized by Web 2.0 both ignore the negative consequences of transparency and promote a particular type of transparency that privileges the kinds of information sharing that benefit corporations more than individuals. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 640
Categorization
- SEED: Article angle: the ideological framing of ‘freedom and democracy’ in sharing culture as a cover for data-driven business models.
- XREF: Connects to critiques of ‘participatory culture’ in critical internet studies. — connects to: Web 2.0’s openness ideals died while its self-promotion practices intensified — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 23; Web 2.0 ideology fuses Silicon Valley capitalism with countercultural activism while embracing capitalism — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 55; Web 2.0 rhetoric claims business can embody gift-economy values — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 139 (+12 more)
Broader Connections
- The digital economy functions as legitimating hegemonic ideology for capitalism
#expands(0.85) — Nick Srnicek, Platform Capitalism, 16 - The internet functions as a factory producing the self as commodity
#expands(0.80) — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 18 - The internet’s egalitarian founding promise hardened into corporate libertarianism
#corroborates(0.78) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 34 - Web 2.0 operates as an imagined community promising democratized creativity and wealth
#qualifies(0.75) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 24 - Web 2.0 ideology framed information sharing as the bedrock of social and political revolution.
#expands(0.72) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 52