Netocracy
Netocracy is a word invented in the early 1990s by the editorial board of American technology magazine Wired . As a trunk word from the Internet and aristocracy , netocracy refers to a perceived global upper class whose power is based on technological advantages and the ability to organize itself in business networks; in contrast, the bourgeoisie , which is gradually losing influence, is portrayed.
The concept was later developed by the Swedish philosophers Alexander Bard and Jan Söderqvist for their book The Netokrats. The new performance elite and the life after capitalism took up (originally published in Swedish in 2000 as Nätokraterna - boken om det elektroniska klassamhället , published in German in Redline Wirtschaftsverlag on April 1, 2006).
The netocracy concept is compared to Richard Florida's concept of the creative class . Bard and Söderqvist define the opposite pole to the netocracy as a lower class, which they call the consumer tariat.
Other uses
The word netocracy is also used as a suitcase word that is made up of internet and democracy instead of internet and aristocracy , plus the original English quotes:
- "In Seattle, organized labor ran interference for the ragtag groups assembled behind it, marshaling several thousand union members who feared that free trade might send their jobs abroad. In Washington, labor focused on lobbying Congress over the China-trade issue, leaving the IMF and the World Bank to the ad hoc Netocracy. "
- "From his bungalow in Berkeley, he's spreading the word of grassroots netocracy to the Beltway. He formed an Internet political consulting firm with Jerome ..."
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ The New Radicals ; Time ; April 24, 2000
- ↑ San Francisco Chronicle ; January 15, 2004
Bibliography
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Organs without bodies ;
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Gareth Morgan (1992). Images of Organization ;
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A Hacker Manifesto ;
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The netocrats. The new performance elite and life after capitalism ;
ISBN 3636013270