Having read Hand (2008) and Poster (2006) during this week, I decided to list some of the utopian and dystopian views on digital cultures:
Digital cultures are good:
facilitate communication,
democracy,
empowerment,
information dissemination,
’flattening’
‘moral and spiritual regeneration’
Digital cultures are bad:
panopticon
‘information poverty’
‘technical obstacles’
the ‘net elite’
‘unbridled but never-ending choices’ (Hand, 2008, p 31)
Hand (2008) talks of the hyperreal usurping the real. However, if [...]