![]() In addition to proprietary hardware, control is being engineered throughout networking technologies as well (Galloway 2006 Zittrain 2008) from a technical standpoint, networked technologies are systems of hierarchical layers in which the function of any one layer is interdependent with the other layers of the system (Burns 2003, Van Schewick 2010). As networking technologies continue to evolve, the Internet-of-Things affords minimal opportunities for Digital Craftspersonship. ![]() ![]() Sennett (2008) describes the craftsman (which we purposefully changed to “craftsperson” for inclusiveness) as someone with the desire and ability to innovate and adapt a medium and create a new form or function. From commercially-motivated bandwidth throttling and restrictive data caps, to governments blocking websites and services to enforce political or cultural stability, the shift toward command-and-control networking is creating barriers for end-user innovation (Fuchs 2011a McChesney 2013 Meinrath et al. The increasingly centralized control of communications technologies is limiting the generative potential of the Internet.
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