8.1 Buzzzz....Obamas Online.

So this lecture,
Freaking weird.
Why do I feel the conspiracy theory feel getting stronger?

A little confused I took a look at the lecture notes.
Bad idea.
There is more written in there then we can have in our essay.
Totally totally totally confusing.

So for the good of man kind & my sanity.
Were gunna go Jenny Craig on its ass & slim it down.
300 words in only 30mins
How do we do it?!

Definitions

CyberPolitics: the politics of the internet that exists predominantly on the internet. Cyberpolitics stretches from the powerplays around the actual structure and functions of the internet that are decided by the Internet Society and ICANN through to the political activities that occur on forums, between bloggers and even in games.

eDemocracy: the internet's intervention in and contribution to real world politics that exists predominantly off the internet. eDemocracy covers everything from political campaigning on the internet and the government's use of the internet to raise awareness and debate on issues to the people's use of new technologies to criticise governments and reveal their mistakes.

Democracy: In The End of History and the Last Man Francis Fukuyama stated liberal democracy is 'the end point of mankind's ideological evolution [and] the final form of human government'.

So I got all motivated again & started reading the notes & I just got scared.

There's some chitty-chat about Gaps in the mass media.
Not sure if I was understand it right but I think they were saying media portrays one side (their side) of a story and the public just has to drink it in. Theorist are gunning for new communication technology to create new ways in which the areana of deliberation, or the public sphere and push a better appreciation of the power of the audience.

Were going for all the little soap opera loving bird-documentary filming, skateboard stunt riding media watching people and everyoneeeeeee else to get a say, to have their opinion, no matter how crazy, heard, coz that's what democracy is, talking about something you don't know, just coz you can.
Kinda like me right now =D

This blog is making me feel all Law and Order like. Just like the dodgy lawyers getting off the obviously guilty crims were gunna talk about Free Speech and Censorship.

My favourite line

" Is free speech a basic right? In Australia we don't have the constitutional right to free speech - that's an Americanism."

I'm glad someone else can tell the difference between Australia and America. We have lamingtons, they have apple pie. They have Green Day, Kanye (thank god he's not ours) and the Jonas Brothers. We have Guy Sebastian, the Wiggles and Bert Newton (they can have him though).

Anyway, it annoys me when little teeny bopper who watch way to much CI channel start prattling off about their right to free speech.

NO! go sit in your corner and do the mash potato like a good boy.

Moving on, pretty much we just check out the complications with free speech on the internet and how hard it might be to monitor and police. The amount of crap on there, you gotta feel sorry for the sucker who has to decide what is and isn't allowed. Then there's the whole copyright thing, like people getting charged millions for downloading one song while scientist are developing programs to get around watermarks (codes embedded in the digital-music files that can be used to block copies.) lets get on the same page people.

'This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons? We explore... We seek after knowledge?'

Hackers; regard computer systems not as corporate property but as part the common wealth and do not believe it is wrong to break into systems to look around and understand. This I understand, not that it will stop me from ranting.

The main hackers we hear about are the baddies, the ones hacking into bank accounts and stealing secrets from the pentagon. But apparently there are two other types of hackers, recreational and educational. People who love it just for the sake of it.
History lessons, hackers come from the decedents of cheap-skates, those who's pocket money got a bit tight but they needed to do the morning after what-the-hell-did-i-do-last-night-call so they hacked the phones. The 60's rolled around hackers poked up their pretty little heads and started hacking at universities to play games.

Hackers are like hippies. Pro people power, anti everything else, they just like to care and share, share stuff that's no always offered to them.

Cyberpunk is a science fiction genre based in the possibilities inherent in computers, genetics, body modifications and corporate developments in the near future.

"Cyberpunk developed as a reaction against the over-blown and predominantly safe stories 'space opera' such as Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy and George Lucas's Star Wars"

Gotta love the nerds. They are taking over the world. And trying to make it sound cool by adding the word punk to it. UH NO.

This lecture was about politics in new communication technology.
I think it was kina looking at the impact technology has had on politics and vice versa. Both are pretty influential topics and its only natural that they would affect each other. Obama can now address the entire world through youtube, he uses twitter and was caught on voice recording calling Kanye an asshole. Think about it without technology how would all the gossip of the world be created or passed around. Naked photos of "Pauline Hanson" leaked onto the internet, the equipment used to DNA test Bill Clinton & "That Dress".

See how could we have seen that riveting riveting piece of work without technology.
How sad our lives could be...