todays lecture centred upon democracy and the internet, notably cyberpolitics and edemocracy. we looked at how the internet and politics combine so as to operate together. the rapid growth of new communication technologies has impacted geatly upon most if not all areas in our world not least politics. it has connected our large world and made it smaller and has given more people a political voice and made it easier and faster to communicate with people in general and therefore with political institutions and politicain. it has recently influenced elections. most notably last years presdential electon. obama and his followers used the internet very afectivly. obama girl was a persfect eg of theis reaching the mass audience of youtube. kevin rudd and his supporters utilised the internet to keep upto date with new communication technologies. the recent ETS has been influence by the internet. politican have actually changed their stance on theis policy due to thousands of emails from people in there electorates and this has even signalled a leadership debate within the liberal party.
todays lecture also discussed the nesecity for people to be computer literate for the above reason so as to be better able to be polically active.