Computer networks and the formation of public opinion: an ethnographic study

Article Abstract:

Analysis of political debate on a computer network and its effect on the development of political opinion confirms the importance of individual conversation in opinion formation. While active users of the system did feel politically disenfranchised and perceived a news bias among major media organizations, they also included information from those sources in their debate. The network in question, PeaceNet, suggests some of the developments that may affect political activism and democracy in the next century.

Computer networks, Political aspects, Opinion (Philosophy)

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Race, gender and sex on the net: Semantic networks of selling and storytelling sex tourism

Article Abstract:

Foucault's problematic empirical and complementary combination of content analysis and network analysis is used to study the quantitative approach to qualitative concerns regarding sex tourism. The ways by which gender and race find novel expression through the Internet in the employment of the sex tourism industry are discussed.

General services, Analysis, Company systems management, Information management, Computers and civilization, Discourse analysis, Computers and society, Sex tourism

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