Cyberdeutocracy
Description
From the Wikipedia:
"Similar to netocracy, is the concept of cyberdeutocracy. Karl W. Deutsch in his book The Nerves of Government: Models of Political Communication and Control[2] hypothesized about "information elites, controlling means of mass communication and, accordingly, power institutions, the functioning of which is based on the use of information in their activities." Thus Deutsch introduced the concept of deutocracy, combining the words 'Deutsch' and 'autocracy' to get the new term. Cyberdeutocracy combines 'deutocracy' with the prefix 'cyber-' and is defined as a political regime based on the control by the political and corporate elites of the information and communication infrastructure of the Internet space.
As a tool of social control, Cyberdeutocracy allows elites to engage in the:
- destruction and/or transformation of existing meanings, symbols, values, and ideas
generation of new meanings, symbols, values, and ideas
- introduction of these transformed and new meanings, symbols, values, and ideas into the public consciousness to shape society's perception of political reality.
The term was coined by Phillip Freiberg in his 2018 paper "What are CyberSimulacra and Cyberdeutocracy?"