Re: <nettime> The California Ideology has a fascist character

["André Rebentisch" <tabesin@gmail.com>]

Looks like his "class" perception of internet essentiality ironically
reflects a "class" background, which he pretended to identify as an issue.

"Without an intellectual compass, the road to reliable information that
promotes one's own judgment..."



Am 26.12.2017 um 22:09 schrieb Morlock Elloi:
> Mr Seppmann, to what extent do you think class relations are reflected
> in internet usage?
> 
> Werner Seppmann: This is very clear in the Internet as an information
> medium. Social differences are not leveled, but reinforced. Education
> barriers are not diminished: The son of good home knows because he was
> instructed to use the possibilities of the network in knowledge research
> and as a learning tool in learning. The daughter of a saleswoman,
> however, primarily informs about the relationship of a hit singer and
> the terms of a casting show: It duplicates in such a layer-specific
> computer use, which is already known from television consumption: That a
> deficient education level solidified by the usual selective media use.
> 
> The fact that the Internet could have compensatory effects on class- and
> class-specific disadvantages is illusory, especially as the self-imposed
> user is in constant danger of losing himself in the vastness of the
> Internet, because he lacks the necessary orientation and research
> instructions. Without an intellectual compass, the road to reliable
> information that promotes one's own judgment is extremely thorny, and
> usually in vain.
> 
> "It is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish the essential from
> the nonessential"
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