7d115ce602c06a2119bf80d5fbe05884 Articulo_Ramon_Longhi.pdf e70f44ee0ecaf3a2d49b8cc78f1d330f0f23468c Articulo_Ramon_Longhi.pdf 3b89340b7a1a5a5cfcf6a5ec8340deb7d305fa91cd8b4a59729faf01d7378f8e Articulo_Ramon_Longhi.pdf Title: From the Initial Celebration to the Current Disappointment, the Evolution of the Internet beyond Determinisms Subject: In the first phase, the eruption of the Internet was embraced by academics who saw it as a way of involving young people in politics who had suffered from disaffection and rejection. They emphasized its emancipatory, horizontal, and participatory qualities. Decades later, a wave of disenchantment, apathy, and rejection of platforms has swept through the academy. The previous generation of technological determinists, who welcomed it with open arms, left the arena to their counterparts: the ones that claimed that we had no chance of participation and perpetuated industrial age exploitation. In this article, we will present the two opposite visions, but first, we will briefly review the Internet’s beginnings, its motivations, and its technical characteristics in order to better understand the two antagonistic positions. Keywords: social media; political participation; pseudo-participation; technological determinism; critical theory 2.0 Author: Ezequiel Ramon-Pinat and Ludovico Longhi Creator: LaTeX with hyperref Producer: pdfTeX-1.40.25 CreationDate: Tue Feb 6 09:02:36 2024 CET ModDate: Tue Feb 6 09:34:14 2024 CET Custom Metadata: no Metadata Stream: no Tagged: no UserProperties: no Suspects: no Form: none JavaScript: no Pages: 12 Encrypted: no Page size: 595.276 x 841.89 pts (A4) Page rot: 0 File size: 264802 bytes Optimized: no PDF version: 1.7 name type encoding emb sub uni object ID ------------------------------------ ----------------- ---------------- --- --- --- --------- BHADSA+URWPalladioL-Bold Type 1 Custom yes yes yes 10 0 MNPQUJ+URWPalladioL-Roma Type 1 Custom yes yes yes 16 0 ETOVTZ+URWPalladioL-Ital Type 1 Custom yes yes yes 21 0 LQGOEY+VnURWPalladioL Type 1 Custom yes yes yes 26 0 TSBYNN+ArialMT Type 1C Custom yes yes no 44 0 FGVLUV+TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT Type 1C WinAnsi yes yes no 48 0 GNBTYG+TimesNewRomanPSMT Type 1C Custom yes yes no 51 0 EYWEDZ+VnURWPalladioL-Italic Type 1 Custom yes yes yes 96 0 Jhove (Rel. 1.28.0, 2023-05-18) Date: 2026-01-29 04:19:37 CET RepresentationInformation: Articulo_Ramon_Longhi.pdf ReportingModule: PDF-hul, Rel. 1.12.4 (2023-03-16) LastModified: 2026-01-28 08:42:10 CET Size: 264802 Format: PDF Version: 1.7 Status: Well-Formed and valid SignatureMatches: PDF-hul MIMEtype: application/pdf PDFMetadata: Objects: 287 FreeObjects: 1 IncrementalUpdates: 0 DocumentCatalog: PageLayout: SinglePage PageMode: UseNone Outlines: Item: Title: Introduction Destination: section.1 Item: Title: The Transition from Web 1 to 2.0 Destination: section.2 Item: Title: Beyond Technological Determinism Destination: section.3 Item: Title: The Old-New Power Destination: section.4 Item: Title: The Pseudo-Participation in 2.0 Age Destination: section.5 Item: Title: The Meaning of Interactivity in Social Media Destination: section.6 Item: Title: Conclusions Destination: section.7 Item: Title: Future Directions Destination: section.8 Item: Title: References Destination: section.9 Info: Title: From the Initial Celebration to the Current Disappointment, the Evolution of the Internet beyond Determinisms Author: Ezequiel Ramon-Pinat and Ludovico Longhi Subject: In the first phase, the eruption of the Internet was embraced by academics who saw it as a way of involving young people in politics who had suffered from disaffection and rejection. They emphasized its emancipatory, horizontal, and participatory qualities. Decades later, a wave of disenchantment, apathy, and rejection of platforms has swept through the academy. The previous generation of technological determinists, who welcomed it with open arms, left the arena to their counterparts: the ones that claimed that we had no chance of participation and perpetuated industrial age exploitation. In this article, we will present the two opposite visions, but first, we will briefly review the Internet’s beginnings, its motivations, and its technical characteristics in order to better understand the two antagonistic positions. 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