"Every Home Is Wired": 1 -- Endnotes

If you followed a link from the thesis text, the yellow arrows will lead you back to the bite you came from.

13	This might profoundly affect the pattern of musical style development: so far, Peterson & Berger report, "cultural forms tend to go through cycles ... related to the degree of market concentration" (156). There can be little doubt that to a large extent the cycles are brought about by the limited bandwidth of traditional media forms, which creates a bias towards the mainstream and limits the amount of styles receiving coverage, and by these media's continuous search for new major styles (since novelty itself is a value desired by media gatekeepers).
14	Importantly, many of these institutions, offline and online, depend on consensus amongst the members of the community: participants "have a role to play (of recognition, assent, refusal, comparison, modification); but it is an articulatory, not a simplistically creative or responsive role. Subjects participate in an 'interpellative dialectic', and this takes specific forms in specific areas of cultural practice" (Middleton 249).
15	Internet culture is itself full of user tactics. "Manoeuvres of individual users include separated lovers exchanging e-hugs, students seeking answers to assignments, activists garnering support for a petition, and music fans trading trivia. They dart under the giant pedestals of corporate and ... information infrastructure strategies, appropriating work time, stealing computer resources to self-publish and to reach out into the collectivity" (Shields 8).

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