Has anyone already proposed a general connection between new communications technologies and political revolutions?

I know there are particular theories about the printing press leading to the Protestant Reformation and the fax machine bringing down the Soviet Union.

It occurred to me a while ago that states evolve to become dependent on the prevailing communications technology. They build up natural defenses against the public that are robust in that environment. However, once a new mode of communication emerges, vulnerable states can fail because their corruption gets exposed in a manner that they are completely unequipped to deal with.

A Free and Open Internet Is a Threat to the Establishment By Connor O'Keeffe "Using the rhetoric of 'protecting democracy,' American ruling elites have tried to censor the internet because they don't like the results of democracy when information no longer is filtered by the political classes."