Wedny Chun - a good theoretical framework to apply to the debates about the internet offering freedom??

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IN A NUTSHELL

The Internet is a technology based on control systems, yet it is also a mass medium celebrated as fostering personal and political freedom. How? Why? What dreams and desires drove the Internet’s transformation from a communications network used mainly by academics and the military to an integral part of everyday life? And how does the experience of actually using the Internet differ from the hype that surrounds it?

Freedom makes control possible, necessary, and never enough