Poster Mark, 1995

CyberDemocracy: Internet and the Public Sphere

http://www.hnet.uci.edu/mposter/writings/democ.html

The discussion of the political impact of the Internet has focussed on a number of issues: access, technological determinism, encryption, commodification, intellectual property, the public sphere, decentralization, anarchy, gender and ethnicity. While these issues may be addressed from a number of standpoints, only some them are able to assess the full extent of what is at stake in the new communications technology at the cultural level of identity formation. University of California, Irvine Copyright(c) Mark Poster 1995