lecture 7 the political possibilities

In lecture 7 the guest speaker talked about the political possibilities. Lecture starts with definition of democracy, especially democracy in internet world described as eDemocracy. This involves political campaign over internet, government use of internet to increase awareness and inform people about various issues and take their opinion. Even though democracy is prevalent in society such as Australia and US, people still does not exercise their right to vote and are influenced by media in using their democracy. It is difficult to define democracy because of its changing nature due to new conditions, social formations, technological advances and other complexities.

Then it talks about the means of improving the quality of deliberation in contemporary society, in which gaps in the mass media have foreclosed reduced the democracy. This is due to centralisation and commercialisation of the mass media, which raises question on credibility of the media to provide just opinion and view. As we progress there is a huge change in the public sphere in society. There is a conflict in democracy by means of prevention from free speech and copy right. There is an increase in number of hackers, they are everywhere due to lack of democracy around the society and manipulation by media. Media prevents information to reach to public, which increases cases of hacking as anti-social activity. Hackers refuse to accept the official story by media and explore beyond the media curtains to find their own truth. Thus hackers produce alternative spaces and routes for information to create universal democratic deliberation.