Computer Professionals & Democracy.

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This paper provides an analysis of whether or not the Internet is a communications tool that promotes democracy and civic culture. The writer discusses whether the Internet represents merely another tool of the wealthy elites to control society. The writer also examines the possibility that the Internet undermines egalitarian participatory democracy.

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"The growing gap between the elite wealthy and powerful groups in society and the marginalized disenfranchised groups jeopardizes the factionalism founder James Madison felt was good for democracy. As Schuler asserts, as the domination by large economic interests increases, the idea of rough quality that democracy represents becomes increasingly degraded. Factionalism argued that competing interest groups fighting for resources would result in a checks and balances system that would promote democracy. Until the advent of the Internet and World ... "

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