Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting

Fiona Enright

Civil Disobedience; Flare Stack/Prometheus

"There have been several attempts by up-and-coming companies, programmers, etc. to disrupt the hegemony of monopoly platforms. However, “When large incumbent players like Google or Uber enjoy the advantages of network effects, access to data, and path dependency, it is almost impossible for new entrants to taken them on with competing business models and platforms” (Maureen Webb Coding Democracy: How Hackers Are Disrupting Power, Surveillance, and Authoritarianism. The MIT Press. 2020. Print.). More often than not, these attempts are fleeting and disappear soon after their introduction to the market. Diaspora, a crowdfunded Facebook clone introduced in 2010, initially received considerable interest but was unable to meet user expectations (Webb 190)." Fiona Enright 'Section IV, Part c' The Human Element: Information, Knowledge and Art in the Digital Episteme, 2021