Political growth of the internet

Political growth of the internet

Online petitions

Online petitions have aided the political growth of the internet because it took a whole research platform and digitalised it. this made it very popular as it made a long strenuous task much easier to accomplish. It also aided in the number of people that could take the petition and sign it as a result.

An online petition works much the same as a normal petition but you use personal information in most cases to sign and make a real signature for yourself this is to tackle minipulation of the system to make it as fair as possible. This is usually done by creating a petition on a dedicated website and would require an account to sign a petition.

This also comes at a risk of excluding a whole section of people who don't use computers but could be tackled by doing a traditional petition along side the online petition.

Government Websites

government websites have had a small impact on the growth of the internet on a political level. they have gained their own domain name and gained recognition on a large scale which sprouted into county council websites in the UK and gave the U.S government the basis of their government official websites with only officials registering as .gov it is a safe and reliable source for people to use within the country of orogin.


at first only federal agencies were aloud to use the .gov domain but in latest legislation any government can use the .gov domain. as a result of the domain opening to all governments within a country it helps unite them and aid communication and has a positive effect overall.



Social Networking

Social networking has given many different opportunities for the internet to grow politically. it has offered key publicity about political events and made an efficient way for people to know and voice their opinion about them.

Local MP's took it upon themselves to emerge themselves in Facebook itself, they are using it as a platform of communication to help their party and constituency and giving the chance for people to contact them and talk to them about issues and problems.

twitter is used politically and used regularly to post information about current media events and political views and events from different MP's.

Election campaigns
Election campaigns have been revolutionised by the internet purely because they can access all age ranges of people by using it targeting the younger people on the internet while still having a strong presence in the media. The ability to put their campaign out on this mass scale helped the party’s immensely in votes.

Instead of printing a manifesto they can upload it onto the internet which saves money and really gets it out there for people to read and make judgement on which makes it a great technology to have at your disposal.

The election was monitored as it was happening on the internet a website was updated as the seats were achieved and a digital mapping of constituencys was created to represent the majority.