first

anyone, anywhere

second, and more fundamenta

it allows one, or a few, or even a limited large group to communicate to a large but limited group, where the limit is self-selection as being interested or even immersed in a subject.

ddition to the owner, readers/users could write to the blog.

weighted conversation

cultural practice has emerged to reference through links for easy transition from your own page or post to the one you are referring to

his culture is fundamentally different from the mass-media culture

other dimension

is mobility

change their relationship to the events that surround them

social production practices that these tools enable

the excessive power it g

its tendency, when owners do

ives its owners, and

to foster an inert polity

ublic sphere allows individuals to monitor and disrupt the use of mass-media power, as well as organize for political action.

first story

second

how the networked public sphere allows individuals and groups of intense political engagement to report, comment, and generally play the role traditionally assigned to the press in observing, analyzing, and creating political salience for matters of public interest.

third lesso

Second,

first l

each individual and group can - and, indeed, most likely will - focus precisely on what is most intensely interesting to its participants.

fully grown like Athena from the forehead of Zeus.

Information overload.

Polarization

Fragmentation of attention and discourse.

Money will end up dominating anyway.

Centralization of the Internet.

Centrality of commercial mass media to the Fourth Estate function.

Fourth Estate

Authoritarian countries can use filtering and monitoring to squelch Internet use

Digital divide.

Babel objection

I suggest that neither is the case.