Internetromantiker schwärmen davon, dass Web 2.0 anknüpfte an die frühe Internet-Zeit, in der der Traum einer nicht-kommerziellen, herrschaftsfreien Community schon einmal geträumt wurde.
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There is also an economic currency floating around within this culture. It is difficult though to get an overview of what kind of revenue these sites make, but we can get an idea of the money they generate or hopefully will generate in the future by looking at their price tags. MySpace was sold for US$580 million in July 2005, Last.fm was acquired by CBS Interactive in June 2007 for US$280 million, and Flickr was bought by Yahoo in March 2005 without revealing the price tag.
What you buy, when acquiring a social networking site, is not content but context data produced by users and communities. In this way the architecture of participation turns into an architecture of exploitation and enclosure, transforming users into commodities that can be sold on the market.
Aus: Loser Generated Content: From Participation to Exploitation Abstract HTML von Søren Mørk Petersen.
