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Does Social Media Technology Promote Democracy?
Does Social Media Technology Promote Democracy?

Author(s): Hana Grill
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Přítomnost

Summary/Abstract: Today, there are more than 70,000,000 videos on YouTube, over 113,000,000 blogs, more than 29,700,500,268 Tweets on Twitter since its launch in 2006, and more than 200,000,000 active Facebook users, 100,000,000 of which log onto Facebook at least once a day. There is no denying the growing power and potential of social media, which since its creation has never experienced a decline in contribution. Whether it is networking, live streams, blogging or Wikipedia, social media has taken hold of today’s society and does not seem to be letting go any time soon. Some question the benefits of this new form of participation and communication.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 27-33
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English