Personal Implications of the Internet

Paper Summary:

This paper takes an in-depth look at the Internet. According to the paper, the meteoric rise of the Internet is bringing with it many compromises to the original visions many had of freely sharing intellectual discoveries, insights, documents, and the creation of a more fluid level of democracy and communitarianism.

Outline:
The Internet's Balkanization and the Quantification of Trust
Orwellian Monitoring Strategies in the 21st Century
Technically Speaking This is Rebellion

From the Paper:

"The rise in the cyberculture's rebellious reaction to globalization of the Internet is exemplified in the thousands of chat rooms and websites dedicated to hacking techniques and tools, and the hacking of sites that are focused on taking Internet freedoms away. The most courageous of these hackers are those political voices coming out of China, focused on bringing freedom to that nation. These hackers in China are given multi-year prison sentences as their voices for global change are silenced by an oppressive Chinese government intent on keeping its citizens under political control. One could go as far to say that the Chinese hackers and bloggers are testing the limits of the Internet's use as a vehicle of governmental and societal change. More powerful than the lone figure standing in front of the four tanks in Tiananmen Square (1989) the Internet frightens the Chinese government and the continued voice of dissidents is truly going to test this medium of communication on a global scale."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Nineteen Eighty-Four- George Orwell. Everyman's Library. ISBN 0679417397 (First Edition Published 1949)
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