The master's thesis is a research of new forms of local democracy that are being developed via the Internet or online tools. We were interested in whether municipalities in the Republic of Slovenia recognize the Internet as a possible path to the development of new forms of local democracy. Do they use the Internet as an alternative to existing, traditional media, or for what purpose do they use online communication? We were interested in whether the web brings changes in the legitimization of local government in the case of municipalities in the Republic of Slovenia, we researched in more detail what is happening with the use of the online communication tool Facebook. The findings of experts in the field of communication and local self-government point in two directions. One says that the Internet does not and will not bring any special changes in the political sphere, the other perceives the value in online communication and sees in it the possibility of developing new forms of local democracy based on the views of deliberative political systems or policies.
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