Fisk-Memo6


 * Memo 6 – Delineating a Project**

__The Internet as “heterotopia”__ Expanding on Saco's (2002) brief mention of cyberspace as a Foucautian heterotopia, I will describe the ways in which the physical ordering of the world may be – and is – violated through the use of Internet technologies. In doing so, laws and social practices which emerged on the basis of this physical order become bent or broken.

__What “youth internet safety” signifies__ “Youth internet safety” – and the threats which internet safety measures are intended to protect children from – vary across discourses. The ways in which these groups, specifically policy makers, parents, Internet service providers and youth internet users themselves frame actions as “internet safety” play a significant role in policy decisions, technological infrastructure and practices which constitute cyberspace.

__The mechanisms of institutionalization__ “Internet safety” protective actions have been used as a mechanism by dominant institutions to covertly and overtly reorder cyberspace to more closely resemble the “physical world” (should I start using the term “meatspace”?)