The Immanent Internet Redux
[PLACEHOLDER: Annotation revisiting the concept of the immanent internet in the context of digital religion and social media culture.]
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Updates the immanent internet thesis for the mobile and social media era, noting that "the ethereal internet light that previously dazzled has now dimmed to a soft glow permeating everyday concerns." The internet's increasing invisibility as infrastructure paradoxically makes its epistemological effects harder to identify. The more immanent it becomes, the more it shapes what counts as knowledge without being recognized as doing so.