Research Question (August the 11th)

2014/08/11
The Harvard Sampler

2. The Internet and Hieronymus Bosch: Fear, Protection, and Liberty in Cyberspace

cyberspace..since I spend a lot of time online, I suppose I know most about and am most interested in cyberspace among these four topics.

Who's Hieronymus Bosch though??!
http://www.hieronymus-bosch.org/
Hieronymus Bosch, born Jeroen Anthonissen van Aken (c. 1450 - August 9, 1516) was an Early Netherlandish painter of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Many of his works depict sin and human moral failings.
Bosch used images of demons, half-human animals and machines to evoke fear and confusion to portray the evil of man.His works contain complex, highly original, imaginative, and dense use of symbolic figures and iconography, some of which was obscure even in his own time. (From Wikipedia)
The Garden of Earthly Delights
i've read about this painting before..

So internet and sin/moral failings. Fear. Protection. Liberty.

1. Fear: Fear of what?
 Personal information going into the wrong hands: Psycopaths, Stalkers, Mothers, Big Brothers,    School Nemesises>>and something bad happening to you because of something you did online

2. Protection: Protection from what?
Protection from the wrong hands. Protection for yourself. Not letting people you don't want to know who you are. Hiding identity.

3. Liberty: Liberty to what?
Freedom of Press?? Liberty to post whatever you want. But some people want liberty and protection. Even when their liberty fails to protect others. I don't think that's fair.