Last time this issue came up I mentioned the work of Jodi Dean - her recent book, Blog Theory, offers an interesting account of the loss of symbolic efficiency (Zizek's term) due to the use of the Internet and Wikipedia as sources of endless information.
There is a pdf of her book floating around at:
http://jdeanicite.typepad.com/files/dean--blog-theory.pdf
This site gives an introduction:
http://www.ghostinthewire.org/2006/11/wikification_and_symbolic_effi.php
cheers from my mis-informed world
keith
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