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Those who argue that technology is transforming the very meaning of politics maintain that the availability of a greater volume of information and greater transparency, directly related, is joined by participation, which has been called the recovery of power on the part of citizens. The growth in the information at citizens’ disposal, in addition to the existing facility to relate to other citizens, increases their capacity to receive information and process it, their ability to self-organise and their opportunities to make their proposals reach the institutions. In short, this implies a major change in the way of doing politics, which has resulted in the emergence of new alternatives under informal or unusual political structures even in the electoral process. From voters, citizens who wish to do so are on their way to becoming part of political processes.