Abstract
This year marks thirty years since Tim Berners Lee launched the Internet as the public domain on August 6, 1991. This date is symbolic because the Internet was already functioning for almost a year as an internal domain in the CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) near Geneva. Berners Lee wanted to standardize forms of electronic communication within the centre, and incidentally, opened at the same time, a new development in the history of social communication. The Internet over these 30 years has revolutionized social communication and all areas of human life. It has allowed people who previously could not speak to express their opinions, to actively influence discourse in the public sphere and even, in some cases, to reconfigure entire political systems in individual countries. In the following article I would like to take a look at how the information revolution has changed the forms of political communication and at least take a framework look at whether the Internet, has become a new opportunity for democratization of social life and to what extent it has happened.
Highlights
This year marks thirty years since Tim Berners Lee launched the Internet as the public domain on August 6, 1991
The Internet has radically changed social communication, including political, because it has allowed people who were previously excluded from social discourse to have a voice
It created a platform through which they could join the previously strictly controlled communication process, and speak out much more effectively in the public forum regarding the issues of social life
Summary
This year marks thirty years since Tim Berners Lee launched the Internet as the public domain on August 6, 1991. The author describes many examples of the effective use of the aggregative potential of new media applied in order to maximise opportunities for movement participation, including the possibility of creating movements that can reach the entire population through the opportunities offered by these open communication networks, which have no defined boundaries and whose essence is to reconfigure according to the level of engagement.
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