Links

As I have been reading more into my project and more class material is presented i have noticed that essentially everything is tied together one way or another. For instance, one of these ties that I noticed a tie to are politics and journalism. Journalism plays the major role and touches on any topic of human interest, politics and a hot topic like net neutrality defiantly apply, which also could fall under the politics or journalism category. That is the general role of journalism; on the Internet journalism takes shape as a public way to communicate. Really, if you think about it so many possibilities and opportunities to reach out without very much effort and be able to organize and share oppinions, ideas, creative work, feelings, suggestions (it truly is endless the amount of information available).

Politics rely on communication. The platform and way that they present themselves are all forms of how they communicate their political ideas. This also applies to political groups too. The Internet provides a medium where citizen & professional journalists can communicate and have their ideas equally accessible to the world. Like minded folks can gain momentum and organize ideas in ways that were never possible. The turnaround is instant too, consider the possibilities. People can do a search for a topic like global warming and get involved by touching a button (and often there is no liability or real responsibility to back an idea and have your oppinion count. I think in general people are more informed.

On that note I have been happy to see citizen journalist as people who are making some great points and effecting a lot of people. A good example is Utube. Anyone can post and it is a very popular web site with a lot of visibility. If you make a good point or have anything to share that catches the eye of someone it can become a viral video. (hell Andy Milanarcus, I think that's his name, he has a show on MTV now because of his posts.)

People are effecting the process of information with their own lines of thought like never before and I think that is a related or "linked idea" to everything that we have discussed this semester, it is truly amazing.