Open AccessTransparency for institutions, privacy for individuals: the globalized citizen and power relations in a postmodern democracy
Author(s) -
Breilla Za
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international journal of information ethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1614-1687
DOI - 10.29173/irie231
Subject(s) - postmodernism , transparency (behavior) , the internet , democracy , citizenship , power (physics) , public relations , political science , sociology , information and communications technology , space (punctuation) , control (management) , government (linguistics) , public administration , law , politics , epistemology , management , economics , computer science , linguistics , world wide web , operating system , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
The aim of this article is to observe how technologies of communication, especially the Internet - allow extensive and intensive connections between several global territories and how they begin to influence the formation of demands and the organization and participation of individuals/citizens around local and global causes. For this, the below article uses Wikileaks and the cypherpunk philosophy to exemplify how information can be both used and abused in the common space of the internet, allowing new citizenship developments as well as government control strategies.