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• 09 May 08
  

  Reggie Ryan
  • The immersion of information in the larger ecology of information sources and systems coupled with the dissolvability of tasks and processes ensuing from the digitization of reality challenge the administrative legacy of bounded and hierarchically-constituted organisations, thus originating more distributed interaction patterns that are normally associated with the network metaphor.
  • But even more poignantly, Prof. Kallinikos states, networks promote a new architecture of control: compared to hierarchical organisations, networks appear as disembedded and distributed patterns of interaction; contrasted to the logic of the market, networks appear as centralised arrangements where users (not buyers) pay a rent (not buy) for accessing resources or knowledge commanded by specific corporations.

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