Monuments of cyberspace

Paris Chrysos (1)

1 ISC Paris - Institut Supérieur du Commerce de Paris

In light of the challenges entailed by the (re)design of the Internet, this paper develops the concept of “monuments of cyberspace”, to address the lack of clarity in current debates and more particularly in the use of the conceptual frameworks of “networks” and “communities”. To do so, I revisit the conceptual grounds of network approaches in different disciplines and those of communities of practice, using as an entry point the debate on personal data. To illustrate the value of the concept introduced, the article reviews the design of the “datagram” and that of an online communication setting for developers.

Keywords: network theory; epistemology; TCP; Internet; Monuments of Cyberspace

Domains: Business administration; History, Philosophy and Sociology of Sciences; Methods and statistics

Paris Chrysos. Monuments of cyberspace: Designing the Internet beyond the network framework. First Monday, 2016, 21 (12), ⟨10.5210/fm.v21i12.7112⟩. ⟨halshs-01497892⟩