This topic talks mainly about the pros of communicating political issues and elections online. It gives people freedom to communicate across national borders without having to travel or show a passport. It also allows people living under representative governments to express their views more easily and freely. Being online, it can reach a wide audience across the world, speaking for an underrepresented group, or challenging the authorities because they may want you to think a certain thing. It confronts the authority of governing powers and resists the dominant political ideas because it lets people to think for themselves. It allows us to view current events from more than one perspective. Finally, it enables us to participate actively in political processes. They like active participation and resistance within websites. These websites can be used to set up information sites or to resist government authority. Either way, you are free to have your own view. E-democracy is governments, elected officials, media, political organizations, and citizens use the internet to engage in debates. Any political information on the web is considered to be e-democracy. Cyberactivism is the use of email, news groups, and the web to address a large audience and communicate with their supporters. Cyberactivists use the internet to promote human rights, animal rights, environmental issues, and the rights of communities to create social change. These people live for issues that are talked about online. CMC can increase political awareness, participatory democracy, mutual tolerance, and more open, peaceful dialogues between people. I always thought that political issues were a hot stove issue that really couldn’t be peaceful, but I am sure it isn’t as heated as a F2F debate. Not only do people agree with what is being said, they also resist it. In the first week of the 2003 Iraq War, 1,000 websites including U.S. Military websites were hacked by anti-war activists that didn’t like what was being said.
Topic 2 – Legal Communication in CMC
Today is said to be a golden age for lawyers. Online scams, hacking into bank accounts, and intellectual property concerns are all keeping the net legal experts busy. Why? Because of a concept called online libel. Cyberlibel is a false and damaging statement made about someone online. It is worse than flaming, which is harmful and negative language said to someone during CMC. In order to claim libel, the statement made must have clearly identified the claimant, have lowered the claimant in society’s view, have been punished by the person being sued to a third party or the public, and be provably false. It is a crime that results in the commenter being sued. Some advice that Walmart Canada gives is “you can make general critical remarks about rival major retailers on your website, but mentioning a specific company could get you into legal trouble.” The internet service provider would be responsible for the comment if they are aware that is happens, but they wouldn’t admit it even if they do, therefore the commenter is to blame. Cyber-crime and internet fraud are very common these days which is another reason why lawyers get involved. The Nigerian email scam was one of the longest running international scams ever. This scam promised a percentage of cash if you assist in illegally removing extra money to the U.S. because it was left over from a government funded project. All they needed was your banking information; bad idea. It completely drained some people’s bank accounts while others actually went over to Nigeria and were held captive, beaten, or even murdered. It resulted in 2,600 people filing complaints with $345,000 being stolen and never returned. There were also cybersquatting disputes made popular through court cases. Cybersquatting is buying domain names using well known brand or celebrity names in the hope of selling them to companies or people who probably should have secured them in the first place. A popular dispute was with Steven Spielberg who sued a company in India for having a website dreamworkzweb.com because it was too close to the name of his company; DreamWorks. The company had to forfeit their name instead of going through with the case. In a case with a popular fashion industry, Armani, they had a website Armani.com. Unfortunately, a man by the name of Mr. A.R. Mani wanted to website because it was his name. In this case, the little guy won. Lawyers are getting paid more because internet spam is becoming more popular.
Article about Political Communication
http://www.barackobama.com/obama-for-america-2012-campaign?source=OM2012_LB_G_obama2012-search_barack-obama-broad&gclid=COTKkquomqgCFUkZQgodT00rDA
This is obviously a good example of politics online because it is a campaign for the 2012 presidential election. This website is made for supporters of Obama which is made easy to tell because the home page makes you click "I'M IN!" before you can even read anything else. The government is using the internet to promote the president.
Article about Legal Communication
http://www.fbi.gov/scams-safety/fraud
This website tells about the Nigerian Email Scam because it was the beginning of more internet scams. Fraud is such a big deal that the FBI is warning people not to fall for it or to give out any banking/personal information.
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