Impact of Democracy on Information Technology

ESSAY

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
Key changes that have taken places.............................................................................................1
Positive and negative impact on democracy of IT advances and threats....................................2
Ethical issues...............................................................................................................................3
Analysis of issues........................................................................................................................4
CONCLSUION................................................................................................................................5
REREFENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
The Democracy is the form of government in which the common people hold political
power and they can rule either directly or representatives (Entman and Usher., 2018). There are
many countries who are democratic, and they run the election in their country and party who
won the election take the power of whole country, and they run the government of the public
welfare. Leader of the country is known as President of the country, and they give all the others
and lead the country and make polices for the country.
This report will analyse the impact of democracy on the Information technology and ho
what are the impact on our life. It will conclude the analysis of the Issues faced by the IT and this
report will also include the benefits to the IT from the democracy. This report will also discuss
about how democratic parties take advantages if the Information technology for their personal
agenda.
MAIN BODY
Key changes that have taken places
Information technology have brought various kinds of changes in last few decades. These
changes have impacted democracy in many ways both positively and negatively. Continuous
innovation and changes within IT are bringing change within democracy of people. These
changes have brought useful information at finger. Modern IT technology has paved a way for
multi-functional devices like smartphones, social networking applications and many more
(Amelin, Channov and Polyakova, 2016). These changes and revolution in IT have made lives of
people easier, faster, better, and more fun. It has majorly brought changes within way of
communication and exchanging information. Advancement in technology has made it easier to
communicate with each other much more easily and with the help of various kinds of
technologies any kind of information can be exchanges with anyone instantly regardless of their
locations. It has also brought changes within living lifestyle of people of all age group by
providing them with opportunities of increasing their safety, mobility and connectivity.
Advancement in IT has increased till such an extent that it is being used by almost all the people
including working individuals, government and many more (Tucker and et. al., 2017). One of the
major changes that has occurred because of IT is excessive usage of social media. Usage of
social media has grown till such an extent that today most of the individuals uses social media in
order to share their personal experiences, achievements or to communicate with others. These
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