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Week 7:

For week 7's lecture we had Stephen Stockwell as a lecturer and he talked about politics and the internet.

Cyberpolitics: the politics that exist on the internet. This includes discussions of politics or political activties that occur on or between bloggers, gamers, etc.

E-Domocracy: is the intervention and contribution of the internet on "real world" politics that exists off the internet. Political campaiging to minster's use of twitter and youtube (or other media genres) all coexisst under the umberella of e-domocracy as it is the governement's use of the internet.

Stephen spoke about the media and the "public sphere" and also about free speech and censorship.