Where do the educators fit in?

Just read the second chapter of Manuel Castells 'Internet Galaxy' and I really don't know where the educational technologists / those using technology in education fit in to his picture.  Are they part of the techno-meritocracy?  Nope.  Are they hackers - well, not in the sense he describes.  If you change his definition from "the ability to create technology (coming from any context), and to share it with the community" (Castells, p.60) to "the ability to define uses for technology (coming from any context), and to share it with the learning community" then maybe we're getting somewhere.  But it's tenuous.  What about 'virtual communitarians'?  Is that where educational technologists lie?  Well, the main stumbling block comes from the point at which he says that this group "used it for their social life, rather than practicing technology for the sake of technology" (Castells, p.61) - I don't agree that educational technologists use it for their 'social life'.  Sure, there's a strong social element and any successful implementation of technology in education will, in my opinion, have a social element.  I think that one ideal is for learning communities to exist no matter what the context... but... there's still that element of 'play' and exploration which comes from being interested in educational technology.  Of wanting to find new technologies.  Push the boundaries with what they can do.  Adapt.  Apply.  Adopt... or not.  Last group - the entrepreneurs.  Just don't see the fit there at all.

So, what is it?  Is he right that there are only four groups of internet culture?  Or are there simply too many shades of grey.  Too many examples which don't fit the mould for his groupings to be that helpful?  Surely the open culture of the internet means that the boundaries between groups are also necessarily 'open' - and intermingling and structured definitions become increasingly difficult.  I don't know if his definitions are that helpful, and his conclusion makes some sweeping generalisations about its cultural make-up which further muddies the waters:

"The culture of the Internet is a culture made up of a technocratic belief in the progress of humans through technology, enacted by communities of hackers thriving on free and open technological creativity, and materialized by money-driven entrepreneurs into the workings of the new economy" (Castells, p.61).

I guess it got me thinking at least!