Information Technology (IT), on the one hand, as "freedom
technologies", expands people's capabilitites to achieve datas and
to communicate with other people, and on the other hand makes
it possible for government to filter Internet sites and, upon the
covering of confronting with non-ethical materials, block the path
to considerable numbers of sites to confront with political moves
add views, and to control them. "Social context" is a special matrix
of social, including political, relations. The sociaety in which
existing relationships have charaeteristics of respect 'for
democracy and human rights has different "social context" in
comparison with the one in which characteristics of dictatorship
and fascism governs. In the latter case IT would -be deployed to
control social relations, and people, and in the former one
legitimacy of goverment would be based on people's consent.
Better understanding of aforementioned points needs to consider,
in the present article, the concept of sovereignty, IT and its social
impacts, IT's relationship with sovereignty, and the impact of
globalization on this relationship.
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