ABSTRACT
The Internet has already made an indelible mark on many facets of human endeavour, at least in those parts of the world with access to its web-based news and entertainment, information exchange and networking opportunities, pay-for or ‘free’ consumer products and services, community and creative spaces. It makes a difference precisely because of how ubiquitous this supraterritorial computer-mediated network of real-time communications has become in the Global North. Whilst new users are coming online at an increasing pace in the Global South, two-thirds of the world’s population are not yet online. UN agencies and private-sector partners aim to ‘connect the next billion’ under the auspices of the Millennium Development Goals and other UN covenants (IGF 2008; United Nations General Assembly 2000; La Rue 2011). Despite this united front,
The Zapistas, or, in full, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN), are a group based in Chiapas, a state of Mexico. They are of interest to scholars and students of global politics because of their very distinctive style of opposition to the contemporary global order, and although they are a relatively small group engaged in local struggles, their ideology and the writings of their leader, Subcommandante Marcos, have influenced resistance groups elsewhere, in part due to their Internet presence.
