Network Notion #7 || Edited by Nathalie Fridzema, Anya Shchetvina
“The glossary is not a dictionary or an encyclopaedia, and the entries are not comprehensive overviews. They are introductions, arguments, provocations, and sometimes personal reflections, each pointing the reader towards further work.
Contributors were invited to engage with their keyword critically and accessibly, writing for an audience that spans disciplines and career stages. The result is a collection that is deliberately plural, occasionally
contradictory, and open-ended.
The entries are grouped into five thematic clusters, each corresponding to a different angle of imagination. These clusters are an attempt to an organisational order rather than taxonomic: many entries could sit in more than one, and readers are encouraged to move across them.
Science & Regulation gathers concepts concerned with governance, policy, and the institutional framing of the internet: Sociotechnical Imaginaries, Projects, Communications Siege, and Digital Constitutionalism.
Design & Materiality brings together keywords that attend to the materially implied dimensions of internet imaginaries: Infrastructural Ideologies, The Feed, Network Ideologies, Participation, Dispositif, Affordance, Standards, and Skeuomorphism.
Rhetoric & Representation focuses on the language, narrative, and symbolic forms through which the internet has been configured. It includes: Visual Abstraction, Rhetoric, Prefix, Metaphor, Vernacular Metaphor, Algorithmic Folklore, and Myths.
Affects & Reception collects concepts that centre on how users, publics, and communities have felt and experienced networked life: Romanticism, Affective Surplus, Suspension of Disbelief, Hype network notion #7 Histories, and Net Scepticism. “
