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-With Twitter, celebrities can teleoperate – that is, they can connect with followers and fans without actually having to see them in real life. The celebrity’s actual body is protected from access by fans through the digital technosocial interface of the social network architecture.
+A local node can have gravitational pull within a local community, but that pull is like a small planet's compared to the sun-sized pull of a global node.
-The idea of envy in the face of celebrity is being discussed. At the highest levels of society of the spectacle people become nice in the face of those with high Whuffie. There are many people who have studied this before, Alice Warwick, a woman who supervised my panel at MIT.
+The distinction is not about audience size alone. It concerns whether the relationship runs in both directions. A local node is reachable: the people who attend to it can also reach it, and the connection is symmetrical. A global node is attended to by orders of magnitude more people than it can attend to, so the relationship becomes one-way by arithmetic rather than by choice.
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A local node can have gravitation in a local community, but its gravitation pull is like that of a small planet compared to the sun sized pull that a global node has.

With Twitter, celebrities can teleoperate – that is, they can connect with followers and fans without actually having to see them in real life. The celebrity’s actual body is protected from access by fans through the digital technosocial interface of the social network architecture.

The idea of envy in the face of celebrity is being discussed. At the highest levels of society of the spectacle people become nice in the face of those with high Whuffie. There are many people who have studied this before, Alice Warwick, a woman who supervised my panel at MIT.

“Now they swarm in large colonies, safe inside gigantic, lumbering robots, sealed off from the outside world, communicating with it by remote control. They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines” (Haraway 1991f, 43). (Source: Transcoding the World: Haraway's Postmodernism, Jonathan Crewe, Signs, Vol. 22, No. 4 (Summer, 1997), pp. 891-905, Published by: The University of Chicago Press, Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3175223). We too, as humans, are sealed off from the outside world of Cyberspace – we too communicate with it by remote control – by the safety of our space suits, our interfaces: our computers 

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