One thing I find interesting in Reed's Digitized Lives: Culture, Power and Social Change in the Internet Era is the author's use of the Russian doll analogy. Reed explains culture via the dolls; we have global culture; then smaller, national culture; then state; then county; then town, etc. In the next chapter Reed talks about the internet and its different stages of development each generation.
After the discussion of convergence in class, I think the analogy of the Russian doll is very fitting for the internet. However, I think looking at the doll to perceive internet's change needs to be in reverse of how we see the doll. With a Russian doll, you start with the largest doll and move down to the smallest in the very center.
However, with the internet the first version (the military/academic of the 1970s and 80s) would be the smallest doll. And we would slowly work up to the largest doll, the all encompassing one. The doll of the 21st century has converged all the other "dolls" or internet eras into its larger one.
