THE POLITICS OF COMMUNICATIVE SPACE
The world wide web is a global network of localized information and collaborative resources, yet online communication is largely confined between people in the same communities. This effect of digital narratives and artifacts reinforcing physical environments can create a reproduction of space where people’s differences aren't clarified and similarities aren’t discussed, leaving the web to become an environment where people are functionally connected but interpersonally disjoint, where additional communitive dimensions increase the state space but also increase distance between cultures, communities and people grounded in physical realities. Information is appropriately interpreted based on the cultural context of its origination. Its environmental stimulus from actors and artifacts defines its function, culpability and sentiment. Sufficient channels of divergent information, are instrumental to bridging communities, helping people collate experience and intertwine narratives, building a more equitable experiential basis of the artifacts that construct information and resources. We look at structural forms of social networks that lead to polarization using agent-based models and abstract all communication as positive and negative sentiment.Quoting Donna Haraway, “It matters what matters we use to think other matters with; it matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters what knots knot knots, what thoughts think thoughts, what descriptions describe descriptions, what ties tie ties. It matters what stories make worlds; what worlds make stories.” And the matter that defines our digital environment becoming the matter that differentiates our physical environment, only furthers the initial distances between people.