Online politics and power has been something I didn’t know
anything about. And, if I’m honest, something I didn’t think I would be
interested in.
However this week, I didn’t learn just about digital power,
I learnt that power through journalism is still current from the Habermas days.
Habermas’ coffee house theory was that journalism was for the
elite, newspapers were hard to come by and therefore people of a certain
stature would gather in coffee houses where they would share newspapers and
news.
This is still seen in the online world, people use the
internet as a tool to gain and increase power right from major elections down
to niche groups and clubs.
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