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The development of new technologies offers tools to civil society for transferring the watchdog function to citizens. This task has traditionally been performed by the media, but in certain situations of institutional blockage, they are incapable of carrying it out. These new communicational processes are not under the control of the state, the political parties or the democratic institutions. They are mechanisms that belong exclusively to the citizens who are able to demand responsibility from politicians. These developments show that new technologies are not necessarily elements of suspicion or distrust, as suggested by some pessimistic scholars. On the contrary, sometimes they can provide tools to facilitate a real intensification and extension of democratic principles and civic commitment.