Lecture 8, Political Possibilities

Defining Democracy
Politics of the Internet. cyberpolitics stretches from - power plays around the structure and functions of the net and decided by Internet society and ICANN
- political activity on forums, blogs and games.
Edemocracy covers political campaigning on Internet and govt use of the net to raise awareness and debate issues.
gaps in mass media is increasing in concentration, centralisation and commercialisation and are going down avenues for democratic participation in existing representative democracy.
Free Speech and Censorship
its an American thing to free speech. it isn't a constitutional right in Australia. its only been recently that the high court found free political expression was implied.
battle between free speech and censorship
liberal assumes Internet is like newspaper and should have appropriate content.