I first briefly lay out alternative media theory as it existed prior to the dominance of Facebook, Google, and Twitter.

A stunning thing that we forget, but the link here is not part of the author’s intent, but of the reader’s analysis. The majority of links in the memex are made by readers, not writers. On the world wide web of course, only an author gets to determine links.

Fiction is a spreading, polysemous, relational network that captures the way that we and our worlds create each other.

A network perspective not only lays bare the various stakeholders with a vested social, economic, and political interest in what happens within schools and colleges, but also the ways agency for what happens within classrooms at my institution extends beyond the students and educators charged with constructing learning.

It’s a human/machine partnership that works as follows.

cf. actor-network theory

Asu Ozdaglar