How Debord has influenced other scholars

Guy Debord's theories when first published, were relevant to increasing capitalist markets and the growth of the new, emerging media. Today, Debord's theories have been applied by many to ideas surrounding the internet. Many thinkers have been influenced by Debord and how his theories from the 1960's and 70's can be applied to modern day.This has been outlined in the article Psychogeography, Détournement, Cyberspace (Elias, 2010): 

Today, theoretically informed advocates and devotees of the Internet and Web 2.0 often draw correspondences between the SI's redefinition of city space and the redefinition of cosmopolitan space currently taking place in virtual realities...cybercultures sometimes adopt the term "psychogeography" to describe what happens when one travels through the World Wide Webb (WWW) landscape, applying SI concepts to the entirety of virtual space on the web.

Debord's theories which were once applied to the changes of reality, have influenced others to see the different reality involved in the internet, as reflected above.  In the same article the negativity of this is also reflected:

If anything, the web is increasingly part of the spectacle rather than a challenge to it. Like the postmodern city, the WWW has become naturalized as a dehumanized space of commerce, work, and diversionary entertainment; like urban territory, it now cordons off "neighborhoods" and gated communities that effectively limit wandering.

The writer of this article is of the opinion that the internet is encouraging the 'lonely crowds' discussed in an earlier blog, rather than being a positive contribution to society. 

However, other scholars also influenced by debord's ideas, take a more positive stance. In the article Oppositional politics and the internet: A critical/reconstructive approach (Kahn R; Kellner, D, 2009) saw Debord as promotional of the use of technology to  communicate media.