The Internet for democracy hype is made of naive cliches
Inappropriate metaphors (according to Morozov): Internet = fax machines on steroids; Internet = information curtain descending upon much of the world”; Berlin Wall being replaced by “virtual walls”; “viral videos and blog posts becoming the samizdat of our day”
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Technology: Oppressor or liberator? »Technology: Oppressor or liberator?
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ICT's capacity to spread democracy? »ICT's capacity to spread democracy?
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Cyber-utopianism »Cyber-utopianism
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Cyber-utopians overstate the revolutionary potential of the Internet »Cyber-utopians overstate the revolutionary potential of the Internet
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The Internet for democracy hype is made of naive cliches
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Will repeating that such analogies are naive make them naive? »Will repeating that such analogies are naive make them naive?
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