This weeks lecture was about distinguishing between cyberpolitics and eDemocracy.Cyberpolitics refers to the politics that exists predominately on the internet, it includes the actual powers that control the internet content and the commments made about politics in blogs, forums and even games. Demoncracy refers to the internet intervention in and contribution to real world politics. eDemoncracy covers anything from poilitical debates, political campaigns and critisism for politics on the internet.
The lecture also covered the battle between free speech and censorship on the internet. The key attributes of democracy are deliberation and discussion while the ability to convince and be convinced are the give and take that makes democracy work. All of this requires the access to free speech. So isn’t censorships of free speech on the internet ruining democracy.
The final topic of the lecture was hackers and cyberpunks, hey there cyberpunks lol. computer hackers are people who seek to free content on the internet while cyberpunks are science fiction genre, based in possibilities inherent in computer genetics, body modifications and corporate developments in the near future.
I found almost everything in this lecture interesting because there were alot of terms used that i have never heard before; actually the majority of the lecture i have never heard about before.
The Cyberpunk according to google- wow!!!