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The Right of Access in the Digital Society

In the digital society, a new approach appears in relation to the power of Information Panopticon. As a result of that, a new relationship of power is made. People making this relationship of power are the elite group who are alienated from the state or mass media. But internet, multi-media and multi-channel provide them with a new field. Nevertheless, the group, who design and manage Information Panopticon in our society, still have the power. So the power elite controls Information Panopticon, and the governed people are outside the power network. However, this relationship is slowly changed by the personal media revolution, where a relationship of unilateral communication proceeds to that of bilateral communication. Since multi-centered or scattered network is made in the bilateral environment, the right of cyber access is realized. The right of cyber access, which includes home-page, blog and notepad in the network, would be the fundamental right. This attracts attention of mass-media. Although the right of cyber access is not still established as the essential right, it seems to be accepted in refutation, readers column, opinion, and ombudsman section.