Our economy, society, and culture are built on interests, values, institutions, and systems of representation that, by and large, limit collective cr… - Manuel Castells

Internationally, the Echelon program, created by the United States and the UK during the Cold War, seems to have been converted into industrial espionage, according to the French government agencies, by combining traditional eavesdropping and interference of telecommunications, with interception of electronic messages.

Beyond the realm of radical protests, there is also fear among many citizens about what this new society, of which the Internet is the symbol, will bring about in terms of employment, education, social protection, and lifestyles.

By social movements we mean a certain type of organisation of social practices, the logic of whose development contradicts the institutionally dominant social logic