Cory Doctorow, The Makers , San Francisco; Tor books, 2009, pp. We get to follow the New Work movement through the eyes of Suzanne, a silicon valley journalist who quits a by now underfunded San Jose Mercury , and moves out of the valley just before house prices implode, to become the main blogger of the movement, Tian, the business manager , and Perry and Lester two genius hardware hackers who work out of an abandoned strip mall in Florida and specialize in robotic sculptures made out of recycled techno junk, like the toast robot built from souvenir seashells or Lester’s

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Interest communities, forums, newsgroups, blogs, on the other hand, are sites for individuals who are generally not on intimate terms to encounter others, sometimes with the goal of making acquaintance, sometimes on a deliberately anonymous and ephemeral level. So far, networked publics have found ways of routing around such damage, providing ways of getting around China’s censorship and exposing the NSA’s infamous room at the AT&T switching station in San Francisco. Whether network culture plants the seeds of greater democratic participation and deliberation, or whether it will only be used to mobilize already like-minded individuals, remains to be seen.