CMNS 253W Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Metapolitics, Venn Diagram, Hacktivism

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMNS 253W
• Professor: Roy Bendor

Document Summary

Rights are part of the social contract that binds indidviduals and society, balancing the public good with private interest. New media technologies may disrupt the existing social order (relations between norms, values and the law - remenber that nifty venn diagram?) Our online rights: access, security, free speech, privacy, ownership(culture expression) How do new media technologies affect politics: access to politically relevant information spaces for dialogue and democratic deliberation---visual public fair. Means to organize collective action and coordinate political campaigns tools for tactical intervention in digital politics ---hacktivism. What is politics? voting? express your voice in political terms loyalties and publics, political demonstration( ): formal politics, voicing your voice to outside to influence the politics. Decisions about the distribution of resources and welth establishment and maintenance of social institution ad proctices (governance : long term and political. Negotiation and safeguarding of rights and responsibilities (citizenship: responsibility to other citizens, representation: identity )