Advantages And Disadvantages Of Internet Empowering Citizens

MUSTAFA GÜNER ÇİLSAL

GAYE ÖZARSLAN

ENG 102-103

06.03.2016

The developing of the world itself brings technological improvements to human nature and helps citizens to form their government types, especially via internet those shaping became more complex; however it can’t be defended that technological products such as internet empowers the citizens directly in democratic countries. Internet has over billion of users which can be told as a huge platform to empower citizens in democratic countries; but to what extent is it empowering the citizens? The main answer up to this question is not clear enough, because internet empowers the citizens up to a point which is not enough to say directly yes or no to this question. Therefore, the internet

The internet helps citizens to participate and get informed about politics from the web sites such as The Democracy Network(Westem, 1998). Internet is great and easy way for citizens to get informed and they can also get involved from clicking the comment button, however to what extent does this work? They get informed easily but when they ask questions to the political party representatives, the citizens won’t be able to get answer from them because of the amount of questions. On the other hand, social media sites such as twitter seem people as a platform to get involved in political actions. For instance, in 2015 2.6 million tweets portrayed Twitter sphere’s reaction which topics were covered by the Barack Obama who is the president of the United States (Gayo- Avello, 2015). Social media sites started to cover topics about political events and actions, especially in Twitter. However, social media sites such as Twitter is a product of communicative of the capitalist system and the real aim of those applications is not to boost the political actions (Gayo- Avello, 2015). Internet is a huge platform which involves over billions of users and communicates people in a fast way;