I do not know how thorough was the link between the development of Internet culture and that of the child, then it is likely to repeat what has been said by others. But so be it.
So.
The idea is the amount of information that the Internet can have on any cultural phenomenon recently. It may be a television series, a film director trash, a comic book.
are all cultural phenomena than in other periods, even very recent, were relegated to minor events. Simply, no one talked about it, quindile information available for discussion were scarce, and no one spoke.
None (apart from the superappassionati) disperses the different episodes of Space 1999, simply because they remember quite a few, so few could speak with knowledge. The series did not represent a true cultural phenomenon simply because there was no material to speak of, and there was no common ground to start talking.
Internet has profoundly changed all this: first through the sites of the fans, then through wikipedia, then using the P2P, everything has been made accessible to a very broad mass of people.
The fact itself is extremely interesting. Normally, the production of culture itself was limited to a relatively narrow group of people, who decided what would culture and what was not. It 's the proper function of that class of people we call intellectual. The television series were considered pure entertainment.
Now the audience who decides what is interesting is extremely enlarged. It does not cover the whole population, but it is certainly much larger than pre-Internet era.
The consequences are yet to be understood.
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