Lecture 7 - Political Possibilities

In today’s lecture, we have been taught something about the political possibilities.

Cyber Politics refers to the politics and political exchanges that go with the internet. This includes the politics surrounding the running of the internet.

eDemocracy represents the use of information and communication technologies by selected actors within political and governance processes of local communities.Other forms of democracy involve liberal democracy, representative democracy and the alternative to representative democracy – participatory or direct democracy. Participatory or direct democracy refers to all the citizens having the right and duty to be involved in all decisions made.

However, the increasing concentration, centralisation and commercialisation of the mass media appear to have foreclosed avenues for democratic participation in the current representative democracy. Free speech was also discussed in the lecture as it allows citizens to discuss the key attributes of democracy,without free speech we do not have a democracy.

Security breaches in the form of computer hackers was discussed.