Participation Debates – The media and democracy Summary
- Morag Davis believe Media 2.0 has opened up new up new opportunities for democracy
- Democracy is a form of government in which all eligible people have an equal say in decisions
- It is the system of government used in most countries in the world except one-party states such as China; dictatorships such as (until recently) Libya; and non-symbolic monarchies such as Saudi Arabia.
- An example of media democracy is the X Factor where 15,488,019 million voters were there in 2010
- Simon Cowell said, The great thing is when you start seeing it in places like China and Afghanistan. It’s democracy. We’ve kind of given democracy back to the world.
- Now, the digital revolution and Web 2.0 have given users the ability to communicate with people around the globe
- On a more political level, some commentators have claimed that the uprisings in Egypt and Libya couldn’t have happened without the use of Twitter and Facebook, with young people using social media to bypass the old regimes and organise demonstrations. In fact, it was probably the mobile phone and its evolution into a convergent device that enabled these uprisings – protestors could communicate on the move and keep one step ahead of the authorities
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