The architecture of chatrooms in Cyburbia has no straight lines — how do we improve the quality of online debate? The dominant message of electronic feedback, as the Sergeant saga shows, is two fingers to authority. The Tories' set text for summer is of a piece with another great read, The Tipping Point.
Trouble is, the theory doesn't hold.
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The government and some British feminists are missing the point on trafficked sex workers: What can we look forward to in ? James Harkin asks three professional trendspotters. In voting to keep the name of their town, residents of Dingle have overthrown the yoke of ethnicity. The market for package holidays to familiar European destinations is still buoyant, but increasing numbers of people are looking further afield.
Strictly asking for it. This nudging stuff is nothing new - and it's all a bit shaky. The shape of things to come. Around the world, an elite band of trend-spotters spend their days providing businesses with glimpses of the future.
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So what do these 'futurologists' predict for ? Branding boffins' hot new thing is anti-brand activism. But they don't live in the real world. Our celebration of the virtual world must be balanced by research into its psychological effects. The nuisance is mobile. Has this man really died?
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Examined in this light, many of the distinctive features of modern internet usage begin to make some sense. Even when it comes to that hugely popular internet consumer product, pornography, companies had to face facts about why their revenue was suffering: The rise of peer-to-peer porn has other fascinations, too. When people go looking for sex online, what exactly are they hoping to find? I remain intrigued by the findings of a survey conducted for Saga in , which found that one quarter of adults believed that flirting in an online chatroom constituted infidelity 1.
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Starring in your own porn movie, or recording your daily life through a webcam in your bedroom, may seem like an activity suited only to the supremely self-confident. More people are likely to take pride and comfort in their growing lists of Facebook friends, or the number of people with whom they communicate in chatrooms. Within Cyburbia, we have the capacity to create an astonishing number of friends, with whom we can present an endless number of different identities. What is lacking is the sense of what it all means.
When people reach out to one another, they do so in ways that are culturally validated as normal and desirable. Rather than seeing online friendships and sexual encounters as something distinct from real relations of intimacy, it may be more useful to see the model of Facebook friends as something that both gives expression to, and shapes, the way that individuals make connections with each other in contemporary society. His was the ultimate betrayal. He had been lying to me. Like a wind-up toy placed on the floor, we go around in circles.
The great potential of the internet is the way that it gives human beings the means to get more from each other, reaching across geographical boundaries and physical limitations. The great danger of Cyburbia is that we end up seeking, and finding, increasingly less from more and more people, until all we end up with is a mirror for our own insecurities.
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