Internet enthusiasts have predicted that Internet technologies would
facilitate global and multi-directional information sharing, promote political
participation, increase global awareness of injustice, and allow the construction of
an ‘electronic global village’. In this paper, I argue that in spite of early
revolutionary claims, simple Internet connectivity has not brought about any
radical break with the values and power structures of modernity. I suggest,
however, that recently emerging Internet-dependent open content and open source
technologies (such as wikis), promise to fulfill some of these earlier revolutionary
claims by decentralizing production of online information, and challenging current
definitions of “authoritative” knowledge.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/1333 |
| Date | January 2006 |
| Creators | Macfadyen, Leah P. |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
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