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| Author: | Sardar, Z. |
| Title: | alt.civilizations.faq. Cyberspace as the darker side of the West |
| Journal: | Futures
1995 : SEP, VOL. 27:7, p. 777-794 |
| Index terms: | FUTURE CULTURE VIOLENCE |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Cyberspace is being described as the "new frontier". But the notion of the new frontier is a mythic formulation, constructed to bring the past into an organized and reinterpreted unity with the present and emphasize how the new "territory" is to be dominated and controlled in the future. The occupation of cyberspace has direct parallels with the colonisation of non-Western cultures. Cyberspace is turning out to be the new Other of Western civilization which is projecting all its colonial prejudices, and the images of sex and violence in which it framed non-Western cultures, on to cyberspace. |
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