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- doublehead, on 11/15/2007, -0/+51To me it just connects cultures. How people react to the connection is their own perception.
- inactive, on 11/15/2007, -1/+42Educated ignorants make me sad.
This article was the equivalent of "the internet is a series of tubes".
You want something that destroys culture? Roman catholics who pretend to be buddhist. Isn't that right, Mr Hershock?
The internet is a medium. It doesn't do anything. Culture now includes the internet. - nitinvyas, on 11/15/2007, -0/+31For me Internet introduces to new cultures... rest is upto you
- lucidguru, on 11/15/2007, -2/+25We are slowly adapting a world culture... The ultimate melting pot.
- TheUngod, on 11/15/2007, -0/+23It can't kill or promote culture exactly at all. It IS culture. Culture changes, and the net is part of it.
- 5xSTUN, on 11/15/2007, -0/+11Every enhanced communications technology is heralded as the beginning of the end of civilization.
The printing press? Devil's work!
The telegraph? Satan's tool!
The telephone? Beelzebub's invention!
The radio? Evil incarnate!
The television? Destroyer of Worlds!
The internet? Collapser of Universes! - cecinestpasvrai, on 11/15/2007, -0/+9You're distinguishing culture in a pretty old-fashioned way here. In the old, aristocratic origins it was used to to describe high art like opera or classical painting. With the rise of the middle class, and a clearly defined role for "low" culture (tila tequila to keith olberman to snl) you have the two blending. An anthropologist would tell you culture is any human action done in regard to the society in which they are present. So yeah, everything.
- thewump, on 11/15/2007, -1/+10If I wanted culture I'd eat a yoghurt. The Internet is for porn.
- str3ama, on 11/15/2007, -0/+7promotes culture, certain niche culture that are otherwise perceived to be unpopular in the real world find a home on the Internet, where like-minded people across the globe can contribute or consume that culture. Not to mention that the internet is creating culture, that is subsequently replicated in the real world. For example that 'Peanut Butter Jelly Time' flash video that later was spoofed on Family Guy as well as a few other tv shows.
- TritonX, on 11/15/2007, -1/+8Another of those dinosaurs that can't accept changes. Is that ignorant a teacher ?
- Error601, on 11/15/2007, -1/+8I would say it homogenizes culture. It's right in line with the mass media for making insignificant things appear important and advancing common misconceptions.
- honeymonster, on 11/15/2007, -3/+10Currently the most Dugg article is "LOL Hot Teen Busted By Dad Dancing On Webcam", now there's internet culture for you.
- WiseWeasel, on 11/15/2007, -1/+7Avoid the furries!
- inactive, on 11/15/2007, -2/+8You only have to look at Wikipedia to see its potential.
And Digg. Ranking algorithms such as this may be the future of democratic process. - kevinfell, on 11/15/2007, -1/+7If you liked Andrew Keen's "The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture", then you must also read the book "The Cult of the Dilettante: How today's mass media is killing our culture" by Andreas Kean. Kean's book was published in 1957 and criticizes mass media, just like Keen's book published in 2007 criticizes the Internet:
http://andreaskean.blogspot.com/2007/06/cult-of-di ... - FloppyLlamaDigg, on 11/15/2007, -0/+5Culture is a fluid, dynamic idea. You can't kill it - it just changes and adapts. Some people might view this changing as a sort of death, however.
- Sawta, on 11/15/2007, -0/+5The internet creates a universal cultutal. You can say whatever you want, and if you get in a fight with someone over it without having to worry about it getting physical. Its more diverse then any other place on earth, since its not actualy a physical place and you can travel vast amounts of it in short amounts of time, but you will never see all of it ( even though only about 5% of it is even worth looking at ;) )
- spyrochaete, on 11/15/2007, -0/+5I wouldn't call the internet itself culture any more than I'd call a blank CDR or the post office culture. It's a vector for mass media and personal correspondence. It's an interesting topic in and of itself but it's nothing without its users.
- spyrochaete, on 11/15/2007, -1/+6When has mob mentality ever gone in any direction but the wrong one? The medium isn't stupid, the users are.
- Smaulz, on 11/15/2007, -3/+8Dear God I hope not. Digg is the very embodiment of mob mentality gone horribly, horribly bad. Logic and reason, both necessary for any democratic process, have no place in an environment like this.
- spyrochaete, on 11/15/2007, -0/+5More of a mosaic (no pun intended).
- AmeLum, on 11/15/2007, -0/+5That's like saying do books promote or kill culture? It all depends on the book or in the case of the Internet, the site. The choice is down to the individual.
- pcslugster, on 11/15/2007, -0/+4It IS culture...
- cecinestpasvrai, on 11/15/2007, -0/+4Look, if there are similarities in the topic of culture "destruction" between books 50 years apart that should tell you something. This cry is old news. As long as people connect in dialogue or action into the future there will be culture. Simple as that.
- WhiskeyLemur, on 06/30/2009, -0/+4"it's nothing without its users." Which is to say, the Internet is nothing without people (and, by extension, their artifacts). The same may be said of culture: it is nothing without people, and their artifacts. The Net is a vehicle of culture, this is true. Yet anyone who denies the existence of the Net culture has only to look at any online community - forums, MMOs, even Digg - to notice a sufficient similarity to warrant the designation of "distinct culture." Imo, of course :)
- toxoplasmotic, on 11/15/2007, -1/+5Have you been to 4Chan lately?
- Dustin00, on 11/15/2007, -1/+5It is creating a new, 1337 culture -- better, faster, stronger than those that came before it.
It is also different from anything before it, that doesn't mean it is simply destroying old cultures. It is a new culture.
But enjoy your nostalgia if you want. - Zippo, on 11/15/2007, -0/+3Nothing's more cultured than 4chan.
- joltcola, on 11/15/2007, -1/+4well the internets is a series of tubes...its hard to fit culture into tubes
- Jorin, on 11/15/2007, -1/+4Where else besides the internet can you find fluid, open discussion about the political process? Ron Paul and Denis Kucinich practically don't exist outside the internet. I guess you can find it on alternative news shows on TV, but I and many other people can only download those shows off the internet! If it wasn't for the culture that we have come together to create on the internet we'd be drowning in corporate media. I doubt very much that the internet is killing culture when there are people like us on Digg who rely on it more than any other form of media for a global perspective and open communication.
- Hetman, on 11/15/2007, -0/+3The worst thing about internet culture is that some people have to type in all caps.
- WhiskeyLemur, on 06/30/2009, -0/+3That said more about you than about the Net as a whole.
- Hetman, on 11/15/2007, -0/+3I think people fear the internet because it does break down specific types of culture. You always here about how kids have no respect for american culture etc. I have respect for the past culture, I just prefer to add some European and Japanese culture to it. Why not have the best of all world cutlures.
- barius, on 11/15/2007, -0/+3All except you ;)
- f4nt0m4s, on 11/15/2007, -3/+6The internet is information made easily accessible. Maybe the internet is bringing out our true culture...boobies, free music and movies.
The internet also gives thousands of idiots the power of free speech (free speech that would not exist in non-virtual life, because they would get their ass kicked). - missingnoh4x, on 11/15/2007, -0/+3Expected tons of memes in the comments/10
- WhiskeyLemur, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2That's what critical thinking is for.
- starkes, on 11/15/2007, -0/+2it would seem a lot of cultures don't get along on the internet.
just read the comments on youtube, lol. - WhiskeyLemur, on 06/30/2009, -0/+2"You can say whatever you want, and if you get in a fight with someone over it without having to worry about it getting physical." Unfortunately, that tends to lead to more confrontations rather than fewer. I try to be conscious of it, but I still catch myself mouthing off to people online in a way I would find abhorrently rude in a face-to-face situation. Anonymity is a double-edged sword ;)
- lordmetroid, on 11/15/2007, -2/+4They are kidding right? State promoted culture is the only immoral kind of culture existsing based on theft, fraud and lunacy!
No thank you! I take my own 100% pure homebrewn culture that people create in cooperation with each other through voluntary means and demands. Thank you internet for ressurecting the culture of the people and killing the culture of state nationalism. - Lindane, on 11/15/2007, -0/+2Kills mass culture. Promotes subculture.
- jimbobaii, on 11/15/2007, -0/+2Through the internet, I've been exposed to so much art, thinking, literature and culture that I would never have been had the internet not existed. I've also been exposed to porn, profanity and banality. Which is no bad thing either ;)
So for me, the internet can only be good for our culture, whatever that may be. - WiseWeasel, on 11/15/2007, -1/+3Unless they're culture tubes...
http://www.labdepotinc.com/Category_Details~id~33. ... - Smaulz, on 11/15/2007, -0/+2Pretty much my point.
- ScottAG, on 11/15/2007, -0/+2Both.
- inactive, on 11/15/2007, -0/+2both its like are people violent or peaceful... next time post whats the meaning of life
- jthomp3120, on 11/15/2007, -0/+2well put
- patch6, on 11/15/2007, -0/+2This is internet culture: http://youtube.com/watch?v=2pPCkhYMQgY
- mahdaeng, on 11/15/2007, -0/+2Wrong. It IS culture - but not necessarily good culture.
- mahdaeng, on 11/15/2007, -0/+2Good point, but when were the telephone, telegraph, and radio ever thought of as bad?
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