ENGL108D Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Digital Divide, Evgeny Morozov, Jonathan Zittrain

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Cyber optimism: the thought or belief that tech can change the world for the better. Cyber pessimist: someone who has a negative view on technology and only sees how it negatively affects society: Andrew keen states that social media is not strengthening a society but rather hurting it. He believes social media is a threat to civic culture. Clifford still believes the internet will create isolated unhappy lives. Cyber space: the national environment in which communication over computer networks occurs. Technopoly: casts aside all traditional narratives and symbols that suggest stability and orderliness. (cause a one sided focus on efficiency and economic advancements) Rober mcchesney: both sides of the debate face the same dead end street. Why not accept the best of both worlds. Evgeny morozov: the internet is given this all powerful image which stems from internet centrism - if you take away the powerful image, then everyone falls into the same level and there would be no argument.

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