media studies, 16
meme, 188
Metcalfe, Jane, 35, 37
methodological individualism, 67
Meyer, Christopher, 54, 193–94
micromotives and macrobehavior, 67–68
“Microserfs” (story), 84–85, 89–90, 94–96, 98–99, 230
Microsoft, 84, 85, 89, 90, 94, 95, 96, 98, 113, 118, 131
Milanovic, Branko, 46
Mill, John Stuart, 66
Mindstorms (Lego), 132–33, 135–37
Mitchell, William J., 32
mobility, 86–87, 102
mode of accumulation, 4, 45, 145
mode of information, 16
mode of social regulation, 1, 4, 20, 145
Moore’s Law, 96, 200
Moravec, Hans, 186, 206–7
Moreno, Shonquis, 146, 148
Mosco, Vincent, 15, 19, 26–27, 73, 226
multinational corporations, 20
multitasking, 24, 88, 179, 213, 220
multitude, 225
Murphie, Andrew, 184, 195
Nagle, Matthew, 157–61, 163, 180
natural liberty, 66
Negri, Antonio, 225
Negroponte, Nicholas, 35, 53, 197
neoclassical economics, 19, 63, 68, 69, 77, 79
neoliberalism, 5, 21, 22, 46, 47, 48, 49, 63–66, 68, 71–73, 75–76, 78–79, 220, 222, 223, 230; constitutional ignorance, 65, 66
network architecture, 50–51, 54, 66, 127, 128, 136, 212
network: blurred boundaries between companies and, 7; self-regulation, 9, 11, 48, 51, 53, 54, 55, 61, 63–65, 70, 71, 72, 76, 79, 100, 107, 208, 212, 213, 223, 229
network economy, 48, 52, 55–63, 68, 74, 191, 229
networked organization, 21, 226
network rationality, 5, 49–51, 53–54, 61, 125
network smartness, 49–53, 65, 68, 124–26, 134, 191
network society, 2, 22, 41, 55, 58, 62, 63, 90, 111, 146, 188, 211
network technology, 33, 37–38, 51, 101, 102, 118–19, 130, 139, 149, 162, 165, 190, 193, 194, 216; architecture, 2, 51–53, 66, 73, 75; blurred boundaries between humans and, 8, 149–54, 175, 180, 193; characteristics of, 8, 9, 30, 48, 63, 86, 111–12, 157, 185, 186, 208, 213, 220, 222; experts on, 29, 31; radical break from industrial technology, 195–97, 204; as socially transformative, 6, 10, 15–16, 22, 27, 30, 48, 60, 83, 88, 97, 100, 104, 108, 116, 120, 123, 125–26, 143, 173–78, 189, 191,
208, 213. See also Internet
new economy, 1, 36, 49, 50, 55–58, 60, 61, 62, 95, 102, 109, 112, 118, 134, 138, 189
new spirit of capitalism, 24, 26, 72, 221
New York Times, 1, 34, 37, 38
Noble, David, 17, 19, 82, 116, 178, 226
nodes: unreflexivity, 50–51, 66, 68, 71
nonlinearity, 56, 212, 215
Nye, David, 18, 192, 196–97, 203
Offe, Claus, 21, 46–47
Olcese, James, 98
Olympus, 150
open source, 31, 107, 108, 109, 113–16, 135–36, 215
open source movement, 113, 118
open source software, 113
Oram, Andy, 32
outsourcing, 1, 117, 118, 119, 130, 133, 162, 220
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