Name: The Internet as a form of censorship...

Date: 1995 - present

Location: Australia

SubjectPolitical/Economic/Social Opinion ,Other

MediumMixed Media


Artist: Jaenine Parkinson

Confronting Bodies: people of lower socio-economic status, vs the economicly electronically enabled

Date of Action: Sunday, 13 June 2004

Specific Location: www

Description of Artwork: non-electronic Low Economic value



Description of Incident: Voices of those who do not have access to the internet continue to be silenced. The web only gives a voice and subsequent power and knowledge to those with the financial ablity- this is the greatest form of censorship, not those moments when the freedom of speach we have come to expect is temporarly restricted.



Results of Incident: discrimination, oppression and censorship continues on the grounds economic status. The web cannot be seen as containing within it democratic tendencies.



Source: thinking

Submitted By: Jaenine Parkinson


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