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The Virtual Revolution

The Virtual Revolution. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n4j0r#clips. What is ‘democracy?’. One definition is that in a democracy everyone and anyone is allowed equal access, equal voice, equal potential. Aleks Krotoski The Virtual Revolution.

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The Virtual Revolution

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  1. The VirtualRevolution http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n4j0r#clips

  2. What is ‘democracy?’ One definition is that in a democracy everyone and anyone is allowed equal access, equal voice, equal potential.

  3. Aleks KrotoskiThe Virtual Revolution • Go to: Clickview/media studies/Virtual Revolution • The Internet is a kind of rebellion giving equal access, equal voice, equal potential. • It is overturning long held notions of ownership, value and expertise. • It is challenging business models and it clashes with our innate desire to profit and control.

  4. Aleks KrotoskiThe Virtual Revolution • There is an on-line ideology that wants to give power to the people • It is the ultimate empowering tool - Blows open access to knowledge • The people who created the web were opposed to the notion of hierarchy and authority

  5. Andrew Keen “The most concrete legacy of the counterculture libertarian dream was the Internet. The values, organisation, the rebellion, the resistance to authority were encapsulated in the Internet.”

  6. John Perry Barlow “The web is setting information free – it sets us all free. You can control what they believe if you can control what they have access to. If you can control what they can know the rest is a very simple matter.”

  7. John Perry BarlowDeclaration of the Independence of Cyberspace. “Cyberspace is the new home of the mind. Your legal concepts of property, expression, movement and context do not apply to us.”

  8. Lee Siegel “The old hierarchies are still there. They are just scrambling to adapt themselves to this new situation.”

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