Academic Sandbox Assignment 10

The chapters in our Cybercultures Reader does cover many topics of internet politics of news feeds, whether live or recorded does not matter, but these topics are important. The target of these political communities are very numerous indeed, for I belong to several outspoken ones on the Internet. As Kahn and Kellner bring up "both [can be] critical and reconstructive". Many of these 'movements' do "provide possibilities for some sort of progressive socio-political change" which I will cover further in this blog.

A website that has strong Republican ties is RepowerAmerica.org. Before President Obama's reign of our country as chief, and his investment into the Internets media, many organizations like RepowerAmerica.org had been investing large amount of media resources into the technology and instrument of the internet in the communications industry in the pre-Obama's reign. The Internet has progressed since its conception... the political activism has stretched into a daily diet of updated news and the organized streaming and downloading of informational feeds like TED or MIRO.

This is not to say that this is a bad or nasty thing that has happened to our newly constructed communities, but it, technology, has the ability to overwhelm if each individual resource does not keep a handle on how this information highway is being used. The inclusion of the web based "Technopolitics and Oppositional Media" in our lives to date does have the risk of inundating the facts with myths. Many new resources like to 'hack' the information highway and change or hope to change the paths in which our (as commuters of the Internet highway) views of what we may actually perceive to be true in good taste.

An instance of this as viewers of the cyberspace community have to be aware of, is that misleading judgments can lead anyone into a crossroads that we question later... A good example of this in that instance is the bank loans that the government pushed to rescue our great country out of debt and destruction. Before we new it, we, loaned millions to banks and then they foreclosed on many of our homes, even though it was our finances that helped keep these large businesses in business. They did not care if it was our money that they borrowed so that they were rescued and we were just a statistic shredded in the next batch of paperwork at the end of the work day. This example of democracy is very close to what is to be expected in our society if the communities on our technologies infrastructure in not kept in check. The lending of monies from or to banks should be kept in check and the records of how this is done is recorded through the advancements of the Internets ability to be used to raise funds through political resources that are available today are in itself jeopardy of taking down our country as well.

The political groups that are taking advantage of the Internet resource is quite large and numerous, so I will only keep it to a very few to minimum of two or three. The social and political structures of the web based culture can have the tendency to just attempt to promote democracy and not stand by the values of a democratic society. The controversies of politics speaks for themselves, but a good example is the so called Tea Party. Here was a value of freedom, that the over charging of tea brought from England to powder England's deep pockets was enough and a signature of America's "Enough is Enough". The use of this resemblance today is not the same as it was then, sure were tired of the obvious political agendas of the U.S government (congress') deepening their pockets, but it is not inhibiting our freedom. The use through the internet to advertise this kind of awareness is not the same as our loss and gain of freedom in the 1700's.

The globalization of Politics has in itself run a muck. The trust and obvious abuses of politics is well known... The firing of many large Brokerages and changes in political figures is well know for there questionable integrity. But what does this have to do with the Internet... Many of these politicians (including our President) have opened the Cyber-highway of information... When this was accomplished, many governmental technology bases were change to shift to the new advances of techno-politics and oppositional media services. The policies of the government were adjusted as well to the well known fact that our computers are no longer private. Don't get me wrong, I believe in America I just don't always agree with the politicians that run our government for they are fallible as much as the next person who would take their place in office. What I am stating is that Technological developments of the Internet may serve us well to encourage us to pay attention at every turn of events, whether it is sending mail or paying tribute to our political endeavors.