Abstract
This concluding chapter suggests the multiple attempts of reconfiguring power across the network through reshaping the Internet into a conglomerate of controllable fiefdoms are part of a process that has no end in sight. It warns the reader that we cannot let our networked lives to be shaped by controllers like China or the NSA. If those models become the prevailing blueprints of the Internet of the future, it would mean we have failed in our fundamental role of citizens. Critically, our future as organised polity, the chapter suggests, will ultimately depend on what definitive answer we choose to give to the question: What kind of citizens do we want to be?
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Navarria 2016b.
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Licklider 1960.
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Licklider 1963.
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Sources: Statista.com; Youtube.com; Deloitte.com.
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The hashtag symbol ‘#’ is commonly used throughout social media websites and applications, such as Twitter, Facebook or Instagram. Its main function is to turn the words it is attached to into easily searchable and archivable metadata, in short it makes life easier for people interested in browsing the vast amount of data on social media for a specific topic. For instance, when the # symbol is attached at the front of a specific term or a series of words combined together, such as blacklivesmatter, the term is transformed into a hotlink to all the documents and information using the same #. In Twitter the # in combination with specific terms is often used to search or list trending topics of discussion.
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For an overview on the Internet of Things see: Rayes and Salam 2019.
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Bourdieu 2010, 72–95 (Habitus and Structures); 214 (Note 1: Dispositions).
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The USA together with Canada, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand form the so-called electronic eavesdropping cooperative called “The Five Eyes Alliance”. See: Friedersdorf 2013.
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Greenwald 2014.
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Boon, Derix, and Modderkolk 2013.
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NSA 2012.
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Greenwald 2014.
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Staff 2019.
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Rainie and Anderson 2014.
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Link to the tool: https://whitehouse.typeform.com/to/Jti9QH.
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Roose 2019.
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Bobbio 1987, 79–97.
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Bobbio 1987, 34–35.
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Berners-Lee 2019.
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Arthur 2013.
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Delmas 2015.
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Navarria 2016a.
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Benkler 2016.
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