ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I focus on the features of web and data. It seems that the most important questions about web concern privacy and truth. But what we should care about the most is what I call “documedia surplus value”, i.e. the disproportion between the data available to the general users and the companies that manage the web platforms. This disproportion can be evaluated with the help of Kant’s four categories of quantity, quality, relation, and modality. This enables us to think about big, rich, secret, and real data. As a consequence, we can draw a general law on the formation of documedia surplus value. Until this law is clear, we will probably continue to operate with inadequate categories and to nurture social hatred.
