Ebrahim Mohseni Ahooei - Communications researcher at the University of Vienna, and a member of the Executive Committee of the UNESCO Chair in Cyberspace and Culture

SynopsisWe are living in a media-saturated world. Not only we receive information, we have become prosumers and are able to communicate with the ‘world.’ This has been widely reflected in the academic texts. But is there a dark side to this ‘age of information freedom?’ My argument in this paper is that although we have gotten rid of one sort of tyranny and can more freely speak up, a more suppressive and widespread process of control and surveillance is underway. Worse than that, we the users seem to be comfort with that.

media and information literacy, politics, power