Immaterial Aristocracy

Description

"In the work of Harry Halpin, the concept refers to the groups of people that are most influential in creating democratic online realities, through their intervention in the design of social protocols, and their work in standard bodies. As protocols are the works of humans, the terrain of struggle cannot be limited to the protocols itself, but is also a struggle for human choices, either through self-organized protocol design, or through political participation in standard bodies and other instruments of Digital Sovereignty." (http://www.metamute.org/en/Immaterial-Aristocracy-of-the-Internet)