Electronic media and the expected role in support of popular monitoring of elections - Maat Foundation for Peace, Development and Human Rights

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Electronic media and the expected role in support of popular oversight of elections

March 22, 2010

Definition of electronic media:

(English: Electronic media)

It is the media that takes place through electronic means, on top of which is the Internet. This type of media enjoys a growing share in the media market due to its ease of access, speed of production, development and modernization, as well as a greater area of intellectual freedom, as audio and video recordings, multimedia, CDs and the Internet are the most important forms of media. Modern electronic.

Newspapers appeared as the first types of media at all, and their appearance dates back to prehistoric times, including the Rosetta Stone and the scrolls of the Pharaohs that appeared on the tombs of kings and on their walls to monitor the history of the kings and their achievements from wars and battles, which is a way between the messengers of the king’s followers to various peoples and nations, and in the development Fast, new arts appeared from the press, and then the radio, which appeared as a historical achievement and invention that cannot be overlooked or neglected, and it is clear that the emergence of any new media does not cancel the previous means, as the radio did not cancel the newspaper and the television did not cancel the radio, but it is noticeable that all methods New media takes away much of the audience of the old methods and changes its usage patterns according to the capabilities of the new method.

But the Internet is the fastest growing means of communication in human history, while it took the radio 38 years to get 50 million users to receive its programs, it took 13 years for television to reach the same number, while cable television (shower) took 10 years. As for the Internet, it only took 5 years to reach that number, and less than 10 years to reach 500 million users!

With the beginning of the emergence of the Internet and after the electronic media, it will impose a completely different reality, as it is not only a development of the previous media, but rather a medium that contained all the previous means, so there was written electronic journalism, as well as electronic and audio visual media, but rather the merging of all these Patterns and the overlap between them create a variety of media templates that cannot be quantified or predicted by its capabilities.