Cyber-utopianism

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Cyber-utopianism, web-utopianism, digital utopianism, or utopian internet is a subcategory of technological utopianism and the belief that online communication helps bring about a more decentralized, democratic, and libertarian society.[1][2][3][4] The desired values may also be privacy and anonymity, freedom of expression, access to culture and information or also socialist ideals leading to digital socialism.[5][4]

  1. ^ Natale, Simone; Ballatore, Andrea (1 January 2014). "The web will kill them all: new media, digital utopia, and political struggle in the Italian 5-Star Movement". Media, Culture & Society. 36 (1): 105–121. doi:10.1177/0163443713511902. hdl:2318/1768935. ISSN 0163-4437. S2CID 73517559. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
  2. ^ Flichy, Patrice (2007). The Internet Imaginaire. The MIT Press. ISBN 9780262062619. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
  3. ^ Vaidhyanathan, Siva (2012). The Googlization of Everything. ucpress. ISBN 9780520272897. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
  4. ^ a b Fuchs, Christian (13 January 2020). "The Utopian Internet, Computing, Communication, and Concrete Utopias: Reading William Morris, Peter Kropotkin, Ursula K. Le Guin, and P.M. in the Light of Digital Socialism". TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. 18 (1): 146–186. doi:10.31269/triplec.v18i1.1143. ISSN 1726-670X. S2CID 212845309. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
  5. ^ Burkart, Patrick (2014). Pirate Politics. The MIT Press. ISBN 9780262026949. JSTOR j.ctt9qf640. Retrieved 22 August 2021.