"There are three elements affecting the development of a digital citizenship:
1) The relationship between communicational power, bio-power and digital citizenship,
2) Shared and peripheral knowledge as commons, and
3) communities of knowledge (CKs), including their topologies, practices of innovation, and processes of knowledge creation).
Communicational power is not just a mere modulation of the political and financial power. It is connected to M. Foucault’s concept of biopower, a power expressed in multiple dimensions. Through peripheral knowledge, more decentralized forms of exercising power are structured. CKs show a structure of a pro-common, an institutional space in which one can exercise a certain degree of freedom from restrictions imposed by the markets. They open a fructiferous path in specialized knowledge transformation and decentralization.
From a critical mass with shared knowledge it is possible to produce a transformation of quantity into quality. We are witnessing a socialization of innovation processes. Participation in CKs is a creative exercise of digital citizenship. The expansion of these communicative practices to all areas of life supposes an advance toward social empowerment and retaking of the biopower sphere." Javier Bustamante (UCM).
Medialab-Matadero Madrid