CYBERSPACE: Crime and Punishment

The Internet, a phenomenon of a post-industrial epoch, has become ubiquitous in everyday life. To say it has transformed modern life would be limiting its vast and instrumental impact; the internet has changed personal identities, revolutionized communication, reconstructed social, political, and economic structures, provided access to a colossal amount of information, and in essence remodeled the very relationship individuals and societies have with the world at large. The internet, to many, is a tool, a place of assemblage, and a persistent state of mind. But its most durable legacy is its construction of a social space, mirroring real world existences and experiences, and the way those new electronic spaces of sociality are then either contextualized through political participation or regulated by governing bodies. A ‘social space’ is less of an abstract idea and more a product of social relations rooted in an everyday experience. But like all spaces, virtual and real, determined by human interaction- the social space on the internet is neither completely neutral nor free of strict controls and enforced censorships.

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