The invention of the World Wide Web, especially the Web 2.0, originally led some sociologists to believe that this tool would have favoured the creation of a ＂collective intelligence＂ able to spread and increase the...The invention of the World Wide Web, especially the Web 2.0, originally led some sociologists to believe that this tool would have favoured the creation of a ＂collective intelligence＂ able to spread and increase the level of democracy in the society. Nowadays, as a matter of fact, Information and Communications Technologies （ICTs） continue excluding part of the population and contribute to a top-down organisation of the main streams of information neutralising active potentialities and risking, paradoxically, to isolate users who are not aware of the mechanisms of the lnternet. The ＂doxic＂ acceptance of web contents, structures, and tools indeed precludes some kinds of knowledge and some different models of participation, with significant consequences on the social construction of reality. As a result, a tendency emerges towards a virtual-only participation and the click-tivism seems more and more to be turning into a form of slack-tivism.展开更多
文摘The invention of the World Wide Web, especially the Web 2.0, originally led some sociologists to believe that this tool would have favoured the creation of a ＂collective intelligence＂ able to spread and increase the level of democracy in the society. Nowadays, as a matter of fact, Information and Communications Technologies （ICTs） continue excluding part of the population and contribute to a top-down organisation of the main streams of information neutralising active potentialities and risking, paradoxically, to isolate users who are not aware of the mechanisms of the lnternet. The ＂doxic＂ acceptance of web contents, structures, and tools indeed precludes some kinds of knowledge and some different models of participation, with significant consequences on the social construction of reality. As a result, a tendency emerges towards a virtual-only participation and the click-tivism seems more and more to be turning into a form of slack-tivism.
