Break into groups of three or four and come up with answers to the following questions. Be sure to designate someone in the group as the "reporter," and then assign someone else to present your answers to the class.

Chris Hables Gray challenges readers to rethink their definitions of citizenship in this chapter from Cyborg Citizen. Gray identifies the challenges to simple definitions, noting that the boundaries between human and machine are becoming blurred through cybernetic technologies and artificial intelligence. He also notes that traditional nation-states also have witnessed this boundary blurring due to the globalization of the economy, which is certainly enabled by the World Wide Web. In response to these changes, Gray proposes a modified Turing Test to determine whether or not an entity qualifies for citizenship, and therefore, participation in the polis.

Your activity today will involve coming up with your own model, or definition, of citizenship. In your imagined community, who qualifies for citizenship? With the transformations of identity (and the increasing immigration/mobility associated with the global economy) that Gray describes, how would you determine what it means to be a citizen? How would you create checks and balances that resist the centralization of power we see in Foucault and Deleuze?

Once you have established what it means to be a citizen, you should also determine what your "Cyborg Bill of Rights," "Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace," "Cyborg Manifesto," or (If you are suspicious of all technologies), your "Luddite Manifesto" would look like. You may want to try to come up with your own terms/language for describing your community/group/polis. Remember that there are implied arguments in these Declarations, and you will also want to consider what principles (equality, safety, discussion, competition) you as a group consider most important and emphasize (and justify) those in your manifesto.