For its 8th issue, AMUSEMENT deals with the relationship between politics and digital environments, casting its critical but unmilitant eye on the recent dialogue between these two increasingly connected fields.

Thus, AMUSEMENT team took stock of the situation: militancy and web 2.0 actions, rising ideologies and alternative networks, computer programmers acting as artists or hacker aesthetics, Internet control and next-gen emancipation…We also met Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, Secretary of State in charge of the digital economy, with whom had a geeky chat about major public debates such as the HADOPI and LOPPSI laws regarding Internet safety. But we were also interested in cyber activism, environmental issues and the uncontrolled broadcasting of our private lives. We then discussed the recent release of Metal Gear Solid : Peace Walker, or how one can promote an anti-military posture compromising any of the gameplay. In any case, we come to the same conclusion: Dream up a technology, but expect it eventually to be used against you!

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