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Politics Online: Democratising or Distracting?

Politics Online: Democratising or Distracting?

By Tania Willis on October 17, 2011

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There is a longstanding academic debate about whether the internet influences the sphere of politics, and whether political dialogue exchanged online actually has an impact in the real world. Do these discussions actually escape ‘cyber ghettoes’ and can the internet facilitate democracy or does it simply provide political ‘infotainment’ to the subjective consumer?  The Media [...]

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