I take the question ‘what is network politics’ to be a solicitation to
think what might be the most interesting avenues of research into the
politics of network. There are two directions of such research that I
would find interesting to pursue at the moment.
The first one would imply a re-assessment of some of the early theses in
the cultural and political discourse of new media that suggested that
the latter would trigger a reinvention of mass participation to the
