Government in the Information Age Term Paper

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Thus, as the issue of terrorism has become an increasing problem, the Internet has become a reliable means of communication. In this sense, "extremist sites advocating violent ideologies or asserting the right to use violence in general and terrorist sites that call for or support specific terrorist attacks" are quite common nowadays (Waterman, 2007). The initiators of the ideas promoted on the Internet in these cases are a negative presence of the society and manage to control to a certain situation the receivers of the messages, thus transforming the society.

The Internet has become one of the most important sources of information. Whether there are research papers published or films being reviewed, it is now part of our everyday life. At the same time though, the use of the Internet has dramatically reduced the audience of the written newspaper. In this sense, in relation to the political races currently underway, "eighteen percent of American adults cited the Internet as one of their two main sources of news about the presidential races, compared with 3% in 1996. The reliance on television grew slightly to 78%, up from 72%. Meanwhile, the influence of newspapers dropped to 39% last year, from 60% in 1996" (Associated Press, 2005).

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Therefore it can be said that the role of informing the individual has been more and more assumed by the Internet rather than by other means of communication.

There two elements taken into account, it could be underlined the fact that there is one aspect which must represent a criteria for deciding on the content of the information provided on the Internet. This is the audience because the receivers of the message may or may not filter the information, but taking into account their dependency on it they will accumulate it and inevitably be influenced by it. Therefore, the content of the information should be filtered and adapted......

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