Week 8 Lecture Notes

Well, there was no lecture this week due to the strikes so...
I read through Stephen's lecture notes and what I took from them was that we would have gone through Democracy on the internet ( e-democracy ) and how politics come into play online and in real life. I do News and Politics as another subject this semester and as part of it we're encouraged to keep up to date with particular politicians via their twitter, public facebook pages and various other outlets online and also tweet about our assignments and how we're progressing. I suppose politicians and others take the online route to approach a younger and more "technologically aware" demographic.

The part entitled "Citizen Hacker - Doing Global Democracy" I found most interesting as it's something you run into every day with the misconception of the term hacker and the stigma it carries. He touched on how ( the majority of ) hackers seek information and try to distinguish themselves from crackers and various other types of supposed criminals. The idea of The Hacker Ethic is quite interesting and the wikipedia article is actually quite comprehensive even if it is like some dude at the pub telling me the ins and outs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic