The document discusses various topics related to technology and politics including: 1. John Perry Barlow's declaration of internet independence and Langdon Winner's critique of cyberlibertarian myths. 2. Technological determinism and the views of academics like Nicholas Negroponte and Alvin Toffler on emerging technologies. 3. A class exercise examining how search engines generate revenue, their features, who controls them, and their effects on knowledge and consumption. 4. Different approaches to studying the relationship between technology and politics through discourse, artifacts, power, culture, political economy, and social order.

1. Cyberpolitics Week 3: Technology and politics

2. Langdon Winner

3. Technological determinism and technophilia

4. Activist: John Perry Barlow: A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace http://www.eff.org/%7Ebarlow/Declaration-Final.html

5. Academics and public policy sector - Nicholas Negroponte: MIT media lab - one laptop per child Alvin Toffler: the Third Waves

6. Business sector: Tim O’Reilly: What Is Web 2.0? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsa5ZTRJQ5w

7. Langdon Winner’s - Cyberlibertarian myths and the prospects for community http://www.langdonwinner.org/main.html

8. Social determinism

9. Technology is not neutral 1. Reproduction of social order e.g Long Island bridges 2. Inherently political technology e.g Nuclear power and solar power system

10. Panopticon

11. 2015 Epic: http://epic.makingithappen.co.uk /

12. Class exercise: An examination of search engine 1. How does search engine generate their income? 2. What are the distinctive features of search engine? 3. Who / what control the operation / rank of the search engine? 4. How does search engine affect our knowledge of the world? 5. How does search engine affect our consumption habit? Who are the winners and who are the losers?

13. Moral issue and social actors

14. Different approaches to technology and politics: - discourse / ideology / myth - artifacts - material forms of power - culture and praxis - political economy - distribution and social order

15. Workshop: Technical design of GPA1035