Networks in critical terms for media studies by Alexander Galloway

Paul Baran   conceived of distributive network
adopted by the Advanced Research Projects Agency at U.S Department of Defense
The distributed network is the new citadel, the new army, the new power.

1) Data is parsed, not "read" in any conventional sense. Media objects are defined at the intersection between two protocols (two technologies) but not as a result of some human being's semantic projection  onto that data. This is readily illustrated via McLuhan's notion that any new medium contains within it older media.... Since all is information, any recognizable "content" is merely the artificial parsing of that substrate data into predictable, template-driven chunks,... in short, a new model of reading will have to be explored, one that is not hermeneutic in nature but instead based on cybernetic parsing, scanning, rearranging, filtering, and interpolating. This new model of reading will need to be based on an immanent or machinic notion of software, The question now is not simply logos (discourse) but ergon (work). Networks are not simply textual entities, they are entities in a constant labor with themselves.

p 293-294
one might cite all the network-centric diagrams for political resistance viable under modernity and the passage into postmodernity: grassroots organizations, guerrilla warfare, anarcho-syndicalism and other rhizomatic movements, These are all "formally within" the network mode because they are themselves formally constituted as distributed or decentralized networks of some kind or another.
P296 n14 This is analogous to how "noise" is defined in information theory.... more noise (generally) means more information. Hence noise is an intra-information problem, not an extra-informatic problem.