Concludes with discussion of punishment of the three cases, and some sentencing guidelines for punishing personae and persons. Looks at how computers subverted a media gag order in a murder in Canada. Asks questions about tradeoffs between freedom of speech and other values on the net. I did not think it necessary to comment on Dibbell or the short newspaper article in the packet, but please do read them for class. Glossary Bakhtinian sense.
Bakhtinian dialogue means multiple voices, often conflicting, certainly heterogeneous.
German for guest worker, the European term for migrant laborer. Pulling a group of disparate individuals together into a group, via an ideological screen. Hate web sites are an example. Coined by German 20 th century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. A view that language is inextricably tied to particular cultural groups and their practices.