Political Internet Cultures

The internet has most definitely made political aspects more of a global concern than the former local concern. Ranging from the online newspaper to governmental blog sites, people all over are obtaining access to political issues that are happening all around the world. One theory that I have recently discovered is that larger countries use this type of information less frequently than those in smaller countries. “A country with lower penetration levels of a medium may, paradoxically, exhibit superior utilization of that medium than a country with higher penetration” (George, Cherian). I thought that this was really interesting, but it definitely makes sense. If a large country is so used to having this kind of access to information it becomes less of a luxury. On the flip side, if a smaller country really does not have as much access or availability, they are going to be more concentrated on it. An example of a specific situation is with Malaysia and Singapore, “Malaysia, being the larger and less wealthy of the two countries, has predictably achieved significantly lower levels of internet penetration than Singapore” (George, Cherian). Singapore has a more concentrated area and therefore more internet penetration.