Day 7: Political Possibilities

The gap between the goal of a representative democracy and how things actually are, is evident in the number of people who participate in voluntary voting.
An alternative to representative democracy is participatory democracy. Participatory democracy refers to a system in which people don’t merely vote, sit back and passively accept the outcome, but one in which people are actively involved in making sure the system works.
With the new media age and the decentralization of the internet brings the possibility of participatory democracy. For people to seek out information and put there views and opinions out there to be heard, to effect change and political opinion.
In the lecture Steven Stockwell brought up an important issue one that should always be at the forefront of democracy, how can democracy be improved?
For something to be improved people must be educated and given opportunity to gain skills. For democracy to be improved for the citizens of the future- individuals need the literacy skills of the internet. They need to be able to understand how to use the internet to find information and present arguments.
Cyberpunk, of the science fiction genre was a new outlet of political expression in the 1980's.
Cyberpunk commented on societies technological obsession and the possible outcomes of this.