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E - democracy: the social role of the new technologies, power and politics

In the age of rapid technological revolution basic and ordinary terms like “free speech” meet the challenging role of new contexts, requiring new definitions to replace the outdated ones. The Internet era advances with accelerating speed changing our notion almost daily, reshaping our understanding of communication, media, information and even of our own role in society. Social networks like Twitter, Facebook and why not YouTube, allow users from all over the world to form cores of communicative societies gathered together by similar interests and positions. Limitless information is spread all over the virtual space allowing unstopping interaction between users, enabling people to freely share content. Thus, the Internet plays huge role in satisfying the eternal human longing of free speech. Even more significant is that the Internet appears similar to the original Greek term of Democracy according to which every citizen of the polis could give their voice in the agora.