New Media and a democratic society

Essay from the year 2014 in the subject Communications - Multimedia Internet New Technologies grade: A ( Atlantic International University ) course: Journalism language: English abstract: New Media refers to cell phones with the power of computers ten years ago high speed internet available anywhere without requiring a desktop computer and rapid communications which can transfer not just voice files but data of all sorts. Since the so called Arab Spring(s) starting in 2011-2012 it has been argued famously that these revolutions were made possible by the rapidity of communication. In other words that new media made the transfer of ideas from one place to another easier and instantaneous. Ideas mean here video audio data or files containing anything and everything. However the data suggest that this is not the case. Even if it were the case that this new media is so class based (at least in the developing world) that it can be as dangerous as it is beneficial.