Tuesday, January 8, 2008

What is the biggest issue facing blogging, citizenship and the future of media?

There are millions of people blogging everyday. Each person expresses their opinions and shares them with anyone else willing to read what they have to say. Sometimes it seems like having such an enormous wealth of free-flowing information can be a bad thing. Not everyone in this world has the right intentions, and we are greeted almost every time we log onto the Internet with ads and propaganda from a million other sites that exist out there about sex, gambling, and profit making. There are some good qualities that do come with blogging, whether it be in type, audio or video. I use the example from a while back when there were several cases of extreme bullying and fighting going on in schools. Students would videotape the fights and post them on You Tube for peoples' viewing "pleasure". In order to catch the individuals who were taking part in these fights, the OPP also placed copies of the videos on their own file on You Tube and asked anyone who viewed them if they could identify those in the videos. Within days the individuals were caught and charged. Using the help of the public, blogs can help bring justice to society. They may not work in every single case, but they are a good start to bringing back that sense of community that evidently still does exist in a vast world of millions.

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