Boston Review: "Texting Toward Utopia"

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1. Boston Review: "Texting Toward Utopia"

Evgeny Morozov

by josselson on 2009-04-13 13:45 tags: internet · research · spin · censorship · web · public_sphere · tech · politics · democracy · blogging

2. Boston Review: "Texting Toward Utopia"

The idea that unfettered access to the Internet will bring democracy suggests one of the worst fallacies of cyber–utopianism. Once they get online unsupervised, do we expect Chinese Internet users to rush to download the latest report from Amnesty International or read up on Falun Gong on Wikipedia? Or will they opt for The Sopranos or the newest James Bond flick? Why assume that they will suddenly demand more political rights, rather than the Friends or Sex in the City lifestyles they observe on the Internet?

by ognjen on 2009-11-04 18:09 tags: web · technology · politics · society · via:cshirky · via:puzz

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