CYBER POLITICS AND THE TYPES

Cyber politics is a term widely employed across the world largely by academics interesting in analyzing its breadth and scope of the use of the internet for political activities. If embraces all forms of social software. It includes journalism fundraising blogging volunteer recruitment and organization building. The emergence of cyber politics was a result of merging together of the virtual community or the network society together with the political system. These cyber politics are the political movements thats results from the emergence of the internet.

It is a a domain of inquiry into the role of new information technology in contemporary political life. It is an exciting domain of inquiry because not all that communication scholar learned by studying mass media system in interpersonal communication hold up in digital media environment studying cyber politics usually means one of the two things. It can mean investigating the ways in which political actors use new technologies in creative and sometimes problematic ways.

It involve information dissemination, communication exchange, and the formation of electronic political coalition across the internet. This includes a variety of media such as email, web pages, discussion groups, online news, online database and research.

TYPES OF CYBER POLITICS

Inter networking.

In this  type there are two levels where by there is organizational level and global grass root inter networking whereby in the organizational level it is the way internet start movements in the organization in different places. Is is the use of internet in mobilizing people on what they think about something.

The capital and information flow,

This means that the internet can be used to take out of the trend those people with the power of funding the political systems by making sure that they cut off the things that gives that person such power.but also internet can be used to convince people to donate for a certain political party may be during the time of campaign. So the internet can be used to take off someone’s power of donating but it can also be used to convince people to donate for a certain political system.

Direct cyber activism

There are three types of direct cyber activism and they are such as internet work in which means that people will watch a certain person through the internet to destroy his or her image, the other one is hack ism where by people wii hack your internet systems to watch your movements and the last one is cyber terrorism where by it is the use of internet virus to to destroy or create fear to others.

Contesting and construction of the internet

People are contesting in  by all inding their political rights through the internet and the only solution to that is to make sure the internet is reconstructed so that ir can be accessed by all people. There is a gap where by there are those people who have access with the internet and those who have not so the internet will be reconstructed to be accessed by all people,

Alternative media

People need to have a new way of communication. People can create a certain radio or televiosion station through the internet but these media will be created to use a certain kind of of language that is only understood by the members. A person outside that community can not understand that language because it is for a specific group of people.

BY  NYANGE LINDA

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