A new form of socialism has appeared in response to digital culture. This new digital culture has created a sort of connectedness between millions of people. Using sites such as Wikipedia, many work in a collected effort towards a common goal. “Digital Socialism,” a communal sharing of digital devices using the internet, became the result of connectivity between people not synonymous with government or nation. New socialism is generally the idea of social-independence, without the help of government or state.

Social networking has caused the internet to focus on the values of community and user generated content. While seen as the mildest form of socialism, this has become the basis for the socialist ideology. There has been a collaboration of new techniques and attitudes that enable different types of social cooperation. Modern technology allows individuals to work together in producing group level results. File sharing and communal copyrights are some basic forms of technological networks where the sum outperforms the parts.

Organized collaboration on the web produces more than a cooperative effort. Collaborative open source projects allow thousands of individuals to fix and tweak small portions of the same project to produce a finely tuned product. Individuals involved in the projects do not get paid for their services, but do it for a greater purpose. This type of worker-product-consumer relationship has no standing in a capitalistic society.

Collectivism encourages self-directed peers to manage systems autonomously, usually constituting an active minority to execute the majority of work. Non-hierarchial organizations make it easier for people to work collectively – their duties are dispersed evenly and there are fewer barriers needed to overcome upward mobility. Digital networking creates a possibility for constructing an organization exploiting hierarchy and maximizing collectivism. Technological socialism and communitarian technology elevate both the group and the individual simultaneously.

Programmers of file-sharing websites did not foresee this technology's status as an alternative to capitalism and corporation. The “new socialism” online reflects within real-world politics – it’s force has become more prominent in the United States. From medical records to thoughts, almost everything is shared online between billions of people. Social class has no boundaries. “Political socialism,” then, seems like the next logical step for society. Online actions and beliefs effect real-world perspective, making probable the eminent growth of the digital world into real-world politics.