Mediated Society
Of this week’s topics I am choosing to focus on a very important subject that has in the past, and will certainly be in the future, very controversial, privacy. For many reasons privacy seems more like a chore than a fundamental right these days. Is our privacy being taken away from us or is it being forfeited? Which ever way you choose to look at it, it is my opinion that we are heading down a dangerous road. In an interview with Stefanac, Bruce Sterling asserts, “I have a real problem with the word privacy. It meant something at one point…But now, there are so many types of intrusions, the whole term will have to be renegotiated.” Blogs, while vitally important to increased democratization are enabling the further degradation of privacy.
