Constellation of intersecting networks
From Internet: Knowledge and Community
In thinking of the public sphere as a constellation of intersecting networks, rather than a space occupied by an ontologically homogenous collectivity, we are seeking to adapt the civic commons to the co-productive logic of contemporary governance. Whereas governments in the past tended to be centralised, vertical and hierarchical, exercising top-down authority via a well-recognised chain of command, the exercise of power through governance is less institutionally centralised and more diffuse, devolved and collaborative
