CMNS 253W Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Falun Gong, Internet Governance, Virtual Community
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Info and evidence have to be set down on a data carrier that has still to be comparable to printed paper. Libel and defamation have also been implicated in something called the auto- complete feature built into search engines such as google"s. The concept of governance recognizes links between the public and private sectors or between the market and the state. Markets themselves can constitute powerful governance structures and governments act as often to promote markets and private sector interests as they do to regulate and constrain them. Commonly found among key user communities, which view the infrastructure of the internet as essentially manageable through self-governance. The internet has grown exponentially and as the user base has become more diverse, the notion of a shared ethos that underpinned early forms of virtual communities is less applicable. The perspective was also deeply ambivalent about corporate power on the.