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Abstract
Information technology has a significant impact on national and international politics, concentrating political power and reducing political participation. Information technology's negative effects on politics are due to access inequalities, the increased power of mass communications, the emergence of information as an economic commodity, and the extension of information gathering and manipulating capabilities. Safeguards urgently need to be introduced to control these political implications of information technology.
This article is based on an essay that won the 1992 ALIA Student Award for outstanding work in the Bachelor of Arts in Library and Information Management course at the University of South Australia.