framework
People shape politics, and it's increasingly easy for them to do so.
An expanding Internet helps facilitate the growth of global civil society,
which provides channels of opportunity for ordinary people to engage in
transnational activism.
The Internet
"The Internet is a worldwide, publicly accessible series of interconnected computer networks... a 'network of networks' that consists of millions of smaller...networks, which together carry various information and services, such as electronic mail, online chat, file transfer, and the interlinked web pages and other resources of the World Wide Web." (Wikipedia)
Global Civil Society
"Global civil society, in its most fundamental sense, is a socially constructed and transnationally defined network of relationships that provides ideologically variable channels of opportunity for political involvement." (Warkentin, 19)