Cyberculture and education: Points and counterpoints between the vision of Pierre Lévy and David Lyon

Abstract

This paper tries to confront Lévy’s visible optimism about cyberculture as a space for the production of collective intelligence and education for social democratization, with David Lyon’s critical stance on the culture of vigilance and its socio-political effects. Philosophical and qualitative, whose research source is essentially bibliographic, it is a comparative study, in which one seeks to establish the elementary differences between Lévy and Lyon’s posture on cyberculture. Consequently, and rrecognizing Lyon’s theses on the illusion of anonymity and the risks of the end of privacy in the age of cyberculture, the article concludes by pointing out some indications about the new educational practices in this context.