tags:: Memex2, control, agency, imperialism

• What is the future of control for the internet? Lately, the increasingly obstruction of privacy on the web has instilled fear in me about how my presence will be controlled on the internet. Social Platforms are being controlled, censored, and banned throughout the world, but who decides what should be controlled? I suppose it also links back to Agency. The telegraph, the internet's first itteration, was about political power and connecting the world; today's internet is about political and social control, with a HEAVY emphasis on control.
• This ultimately ties with my interest of research: Control_and_censorship.

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• There are a lot of articles about the control of internet, maybe the theme will be more relevant later in the semester. For now, here are a few articles that could provide interesting perspectives.
  • Eriksson, Johan, Giampiero Giacomello, Hamoud Salhi, Myriam Dunn Cavelty, J. P. Singh, and M. I. Franklin. “Who Controls the Internet? Beyond the Obstinacy or Obsolescence of the State.” International Studies Review 11, no. 1 (2009): 205–30. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25482060.
  • Altheide, David L. “The Control Narrative of the Internet.” Symbolic Interaction 27, no. 2 (2004): 223–45. https://doi.org/10.1525/si.2004.27.2.223.
  • Mulvenon, James. “Golden Shields and Panopticons: Beijing’s Evolving Internet Control Policies.” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs 9, no. 2 (2008): 115–20. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43133785.
  • SINGH, PARMINDER JEET. “Internet Governance: Is the Internet Really Free of US Control?” Economic and Political Weekly 51, no. 43 (2016): 27–30. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44165843.