DIGITAL POLITICS: Choice of four questions

DIGITAL POLITICS: Choice of four questions Order Description We have four questions to chose from, please chose ONE to write the essay on. 1.0 Are digital technologies creating media monopolies or enabling media freedom for everyone – or both simultaneously? 2.0 The future is what it used to be. Discuss how and why today’s digital utopias resemble their 20th century predecessors. 3.0 Does the building of the digital commons undermine or strengthen the gig economy of precarious labour? 4.0 The Information Panopticon is the greatest threat to political freedom in human history. Discuss. 5.0 Are digital democracies fragmenting the electorate into competing identity groups trapped within their own filter bubbles or uniting the population through community media and participatory politics? Once you have chosen please let me know which one you picked. Please include political theories. 20 sources minimum. 1925 words excluding bibliography. bibliography must be done harvard style with footnote referencing throughout the essay. first class grading scheme: First class essays (70-100%) will: address the question or title; follow a structured and signposted sequence; demonstrate familiarity with the relevant literature; present an analysis and evaluation of the ideas and theories discussed; reveal internal integration and coherence; use references and examples to support the claims and arguments made; provide detailed references and sources in the bibliography or reference section; be written in good and grammatically correct English. Diferences within the range are usually attributable to diferences in the quality of analysis and evaluation and internal integration and coherence. In marking Coursework Essays, lecturers will consider: • extent to which the remit of the assignment has been met; • technical accuracy with which relevant theoretical arguments and concepts are met; • degree to which theories and concepts discussed are integrated, contextualised and evaluated; • range of source material used; • coherence of the structure and argument; • clarity (clear and grammatically correct use of English, including proper spelling and punctuation) with which ideas are expressed; • the selection and correct attribution of sources in support of an argument. Please only chose this assignment if you are very comfortable with social media, digital politics etc to be able to answer the essay question as accurately as possible.