| Sumario: | Since the rise of the Web in the early 1990s, the world's networked population has expanded from the low millions to the low billions. Over the same period, social media have become a fact of life for civil society globally, involving many actors—ordinary citizens, activists, nongovernmental organizations, telecommunications companies, software providers, and governments. This raises the obvious question for the U.S. government of how the ubiquity of social media affects U.S. interest and how U.S. policy should react to it. As the communications landscape becomes denser, more complex, and more participatory, the networked population is attaining greater access to information, more opportunities to engage in public speech, and an improved ability to undertake collective action.
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