Persuasion and Privacy in Cyberspace
The Online Protests over Lotus Marketplace and the Clipper Chip
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11101013 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lori Kendall (corresponding author), Laura J Gurak |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 507 |
| Publication date | 1998-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2654516 |
| OpenAlex | W2039605678 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 27 |
From the Publisher: What happens when the Internet is used as a forum for public debate? Do the speed and power of computer-mediated communication foster democratic discourse and protest? This fascinating book examines two examples of social action on the Internet - the organized protests against Lotus MarketPlace and the Clipper chip - in order to evaluate the impact of the net on our social and political life. In 1990, Lotus Development Corporation announced the forthcoming production of a direct-mail marketing database that would contain the names, addresses, and spending habits of 120 million American consumers. A grassroots outcry on the Internet resulted in decision by Lotus to cancel the project. In 1994, the U.S. government proposed a new encryption standard called the Clipper chip, which, for the purposes of national security, could decrypt any message on any telephone in which it was installed. This encryption standard was implemented, despite opposition in the form of an online petition of more than forty thousand signatures. Laura J. Gurak tells the full stories of these protests, analyzes the resulting rhetoric and the reasons for the different outcomes, considers positive and negative aspects of computer-mediated communication, and challenges claims about cyberspace as a bastion of free speech by pointing out problems of access, structure, and gender bias on the Internet. In addition, because both cases involved technologies that raised concerns about the right to privacy on the Internet, she discusses issues of privacy in cyberspace
Business · Chip · Clipper (electronics · Computer security · Cyberspace · Electrical engineering · Internet privacy · Persuasion · Telecommunications · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies · Engineering · Psychology · Social Media and Politics
Unveiling the layers of data activism
Studying WeChat Official Accounts with novel 'backend-in' and 'traceback' methods
Speaking of Cheryl Miller
The internet
Global Media and Culture
The digital person
The Future of Social Movement Organizations
The Psychology of Blogging
Masculinizing the feminine
Challenging codes in 'the happiest place on earth
Practicing privacy on other networks
Personal Mediated Communication and the Concept of Community in Theory and Practice
Narrative Agency in Hashtag Activism
A Tack in the Shoe and Taking off the Shoe Neutralization and Counter-neutralization Dynamics
An Interrupted Postcolonial/Feminist Cyberethnography
The other path to the web
Beyond the diluted community concept
A Tack in the Shoe
Changing the World One Webpage at a Time
Studying Online Activism
Computer-Aided Content Analysis of Digitally Enabled Movements
Hazing as a Process of Boundary Maintenance in an Online Community
The Challenges of Ensuring Participant Consent in Internet-based Sex Studies
Digital Network Repertoires and Organizational Hybridity
Reconceptualizing Collective Action in the Contemporary Media Environment
Postmodernism, Resistance, and Cyberspace
Civil Society and the Shaping of Communication–Information Policy
| Unique citing works | 27 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2023 (25) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |