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Politics and the Internet
Online credibility is often a difficult matter to understand. The written word has unique powers that differ much from interpersonal exchange. Before understanding the meaning of words, context is needed to help give meaning and relationship to those words. The internet, for good or bad, diminishes the ability of the reader to usefully deduce what is being communicated due to this lack of context. Anyone can be heard online, making standard credentials less valuable. Credentials don't always carry an argument but can help refine one. The exposure of the world wide web brings into question what are acceptable and unacceptable forms of credentials. As a result, words are now more important than ever as there stand alone meanings offer the only credibility they can offer.
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It is important to realize that the political landscape is very fluid and is always changing. The advent...
The purpose of this argument is to investigate the means in which internet technology has impacted political discourse since its beginning.
Before advancing this argument is important to define what a political landscape actually is. Politics is a systematic means of solving problems through the use of communicating ideas through and with fellow humans. Politics transcends logic and emotion and combines these two human elements into a means of understanding power struggles and their impacts. The political landscape therefore attempts to generalize all of these discourses into a generalized form of discussion.
The shape of this landscape before the impact of the internet was slower and more unified. Before this technological advancement, political power dealers could manage their problems…
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