All the anonymous commentators and the non-anonymous ones,
thank you very much for your comments.
Some of the points from your comments that I would like to respond to are:
One of you said that the codes of cyberspace are pre-decided, almost like we have a drop down menu. I agree, but at the same time, I am just wondering if the virtuality of the cyberspace can promise a radical change in these codes before a change in the codes that operate in the real world? For instance are 'gender codes' more flexible for 'digital avataars' than the so called 'real people'?
Romit: I join your argument regarding the pornographic debates. But I think what the cartoon is also trying to communicate is that there maybe a possibility of the human mind getting so affected by the language and technology of the cyberspace that it is no longer the content but the very form of the cyber-world that affects human functioning and imaginations.
Perhaps now the question is, how does a creator/user of the cyberspace negotiate his relation with a)his or her digital avataar and b) with the space itself in which new power structures are created. How does one identify the use and abuse of power in this virtual space especially in its form and not its content?
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