From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism

By F. Turner. 2006

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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The “sharing” economy: labor, inequality, and social connection on for‐profit platforms (2017, positive): “This approach, with its roots in cyberutopianism (Turner, 2006), combines multiple forms of digital sharing—open‐source software, crowdfunding, bitcoin, and the collaborative consumption platforms.”
Alternative and Activist New Media (2011, neutral): “libertarian, countercultural values that developed among highly skilled programmers in the 1960s and 1970s, selfdescribed hackers who considered computing to be a force for progressive social transformation and personal expression (Nissenbaum, 2004; Turner, 2006).”
Data Capitalism: Redefining the Logics of Surveillance and Privacy (2019, background): “(Turner, 2006, p.161) As the examples I have illustrated above show, the process of convincing customers to overcome their concerns about privacy to achieve the social benefits of participating in these “online communities” relied heavily on three narratives of technological utopianism.”
Children and young people’s rights in the digital age: An emerging agenda (2017, background): “…association, privacy, information and equality as an ethical-political alternative to the assumption of state and/or commercial power online, thereby countering the dominant political economy that defines society offline (and, increasingly, online; see Mansell, 2012; Turner, 2006; Van Dijck, 2013).”
Collective knowledge systems: Where the Social Web meets the Semantic Web (2008, neutral): “1 of 18 Collective Knowledge Systems:”
Infrastructuring and the formation of publics in participatory design (2013, background): “…participatory democracy and in the early movements that gave rise to the social phenomena around the Internet, we find a deep optimism about society’s ability to overcome challenges through sharing ideas (i.e. identifying issues) and engaging with each other (i.e. mobilizing action) (Turner, 2006).”
Data colonialism through accumulation by dispossession: New metaphors for daily data (2015, neutral): “…evangelists of internet technologies, like Howard Rheingold, explicitly make use of a pioneer mythos in which the Internet becomes an open space of unlimited freedom (Hirschorn, 2010), which also has ties to the 1960s counterculture and experiments in communal living that followed (Turner 2008).”
Values as lived experience: evolving value sensitive design in support of value discovery (2009, background): “counterculture and underpin the notion that digital technology plays a unique role in embodying and propagating certain values within society [48].”
Digital sovereignty (2020, neutral): “…or public research infrastructures (Mazzucato, 2011), cyber exceptionalism—which most often takes the form of cyber libertarianism (Keller, 2019)—was the formative ideology in those early days with a strong cultural and economic backing in Silicon Valley (Barbrook & Cameron, 1996; Turner, 2006).”
Ethnographic Approaches to Digital Media (2010, background): “…producers: The Bay Area is home to high-tech giants and smaller start-up firms, institutions whose norms and practices simultaneously sustain countercultural worldviews (Turner 2006), techno-liberal commitments (Malaby 2009), and “New Edge” spiritual celebrations of technology (Zandbergen 2010).”
Wikinomics and its discontents: a critical analysis of Web 2.0 business manifestos (2009, background): “Cluetrain, Wikinomics and ‘We-Think’ extend a line of thinking, historically analyzed by Fred Turner (2005), which is markedly rooted in a capitalist individualist model while eloquently tapping into the spirit of communalization – a hybrid line of reasoning that has dominated grass roots virtual co”
#Gamergate and The Fappening: How Reddit’s algorithm, governance, and culture support toxic technocultures (2017, background): “Geek masculinity also embraces a kind of techno/cyberlibertarian ethos, valuing the notion of a rational, autonomous individual and meritocratic idealism (Turner, 2006).”