Saturday, December 13, 2008

53. Nomadic Power and Cultural Resistance, Critical Art Ensemble, 1994

  • This school of thought sees the powerful elite as the "primary beneficiaries of network technologies"
  • The elite are now "fully cyber spacial"
  • How can you act out/speak out in this new space?  What are its benefits?  What doesn't work with it?
  • There is a large, underlying question as to "how, or whether, to use new media technologies for taking (virtual) action, rather than organizing and reporting (physical) action
  • Virtual Sit Ins, "hacktivists," and "cyberhippies"
  • Cyber activism allows for large numbers of people to be part of something that they may not e able to be physically part of
  • There is significant questions to whether or not it is at all affective.

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