2: Are there any cross cultural factors and/ or effects of globalisation involved in the impact of new technology on your case study?

The definition of politics is "The activities associated with the governance of a country or area." This can be as a democracy, meaning that someone is elected to represent the collective view of their country or constituency. Given the nature of one person controlling an area for the benefit of many who have elected them, would suggest that a lot of interaction is needed between the chosen politician and his constituency. This is where the role of new media starts to effect politics, a number of new devices and technologies have emerged to allow the public a bigger platform to voice their opinions. Examples of this would be shows such as Question time on the BBC creating a twitter page which allows viewers to not only question politicians on the show but can tweet their opinions wherever they like. Also a number of politicians have created their own twitter pages to interact with younger generations of potential voters; the use of social networking sites was very prominent during Barack Obama's election campaign. He used twitter, Facebook, myspace as well as converting his own website into a social network allowing americans the opportunity to question policies and share opinions. A government can also be ran as a dictatorship , this is "a government controlled by one person, or a small group of people. In this form of government the power rests entirely on the person or group of people, and can be obtained by force or by inheritance. The dictator(s) may also take away much of its peoples' freedom". Dictatorships are generally seen as being wrong and a lot of countries have been fighting for the freedom to elect their leaders. A recent example would be in Tunisia where they used a Facebook to organise a number of protest and consequently the revolution has been dubbed 'the Facebook revolution'. Many countries have taken this as an example and begun protesting, but in response Egypt had blocked the use of Facebook and twitter to disrupt any planning of protests.