Information technology led globalization and transformation of polity from local to global
Keywords:
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), New Public Sphere (NPS), Globalization, Polity.Abstract
Polity refers to a social formation, of which state is but a part. The nation-state based polity is undergoing a
transformation due to the imposing nature of ICTs led globalization. The states as a collective entity have
no escape from the pushing impacts of digital technologies that have converted the world population into a
single community with opportunities of instant connectivity, and dissemination of information through
bullet-theory of injecting facts and figures into the mind of every member of global civil society. Several
causes of this transformation of polity can be extracted from the intellectual discourses available in the
existing research, predicting the consequences with tangible and explicit demonstrations of the same in the
real world settings. The objective of this article is to juxtapose the diversity of research-findings into a
compact piece of knowledge and present a theoretical model to comprehend this transformation and
emergence of global polity.
