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Text blocks: History: Communist Tradition On-line Advertising Revenues Implant technology Anonymity Key-Systems Racism on the Internet Copyright Management and Control ... So what does cryptography mean? Two Examples of Disinforamtion in the ... Cryptography and Democracy Operating the net: overview Biometric technologies Introduction Governmental Regulations Commercial vs. Independent Content: ... Content as Transport Medium for Values ... Economic structure; introduction A Democratic Atrocity Story body and mind as defects Digital Signatures, Timestamps etc Kyoko Data   Index cards Technological measures World Wide Web (WWW)

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Kyoko Data Is it art, is it a commercial or is it disinformation, when web-designers create a virtual model out of the so-called best parts of different top-models? Kyoko data-project: the virtual model and pop-star is not only regarded as a virtual thing but "had" a biography, a family and everything else that a famous star would have. She was not even less reachable as any of them. For example she received tons of love-letters by Japanese teenagers. The question arising is whether she can be regarded as a product for making money or whether the media-enterprise HoriPro that invented her (isn't it much more comfortable to have a virtual star that doesn't have wishes and needs?), wants to get a certain message through by marketing her. The answer tends to be "both". more: http://www.wdirewolff.com/jkyoko.htm and http://members.tripod.com/a_fe.chan/Kyoko-Data.html browse Report: Disinformation and Democracy     Abstract  ... -3   Infowar -2   Racism on the Internet -1   Disinformation and Science 0   Kyoko Data +1   Further Tools: Photography +2   Exchange of the Text +3   The Gulf War      ... Conclusion  INDEX CARD     RESEARCH MATRIX  World Wide Web (WWW) Probably the most significant Internet service, the World Wide Web is not the essence of the Internet, but a subset of it. It is constituted by documents that are linked together in a way you can switch from one document to another by simply clicking on the link connecting these documents. This is made possible by the Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML), the authoring language used in creating World Wide Web-based documents. These so-called hypertexts can combine text documents, graphics, videos, sounds, and Java applets, so making multimedia content possible. Especially on the World Wide Web, documents are often retrieved by entering keywords into so-called search engines, sets of programs that fetch documents from as many servers as possible and index the stored information. (For regularly updated lists of the 100 most popular words that people are entering into search engines, click here). No search engine can retrieve all information on the whole World Wide Web; every search engine covers just a small part of it. Among other things that is the reason why the World Wide Web is not simply a very huge database, as is sometimes said, because it lacks consistency. There is virtually almost infinite storage capacity on the Internet, that is true, a capacity, which might become an almost everlasting too, a prospect, which is sometimes consoling, but threatening too. According to the Internet domain survey of the Internet Software Consortium the number of Internet host computers is growing rapidly. In October 1969 the first two computers were connected; this number grows to 376.000 in January 1991 and 72,398.092 in January 2000. World Wide Web History Project, http://www.webhistory.org/home.html http://www.searchwords.com/ http://www.islandnet.com/deathnet/ http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/feature/199...