For the recent conference on The Life of Mobile Data: Technology, Mobility and Data Subjectivity (April 15-16, 2004, University of Surrey, England), Ned Rossiter, Centre for Media Research, University of Ulster, writes:

organised networks are emergent socio-technical forms that arise from the limits of both tactical media and more traditional institutional structures and architectonic forms. Organised networks are peculiar for the ways in which they address problems situated within the media form itself. The organised network is thus one whose socio-technical relations are immanent to, rather than supplements of, communications media. The paper argues that the problematics of scale and sustainability are the two key challenges faced by various forms of networks. The organised network is distinct for the ways in which it has managed to address such problematics in order to imbue informational relations with a strategic potential.

Read the rest of his paper here (via nettime)