Friday, September 23, 2011
community media
While reading this article I was informed that in 2003 44 percent of Americans had created their own content. This lead me to think about youtube and how people will share anything about themselves with strangers. In hopes of getting a lot of views from the public. However, sometimes videos are funny and other times they are very informative. A person can pretty much search youtube and find out anything from how to change a tire to how to bake a cake. In the article they also talk about self representation and how people should have a voice and state their opinions and Youtube and blogging are the most popular was to be heard. Its like as soon a someone gets a million hits all of a sudden their on the news. I still find that to be amazing its like one minute I'm watching the news and they are talking about unemployed Americans and for some reason it could lead to them discussing how Rebbecca Black got one million hits on youtube.
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I consider the Internet responsible for acting as a global platform for communication and for the kind of content creation like you mentioned. Traditional media has had to change its ways over the past few years in order to pay attention to the movements, trends and conversations happening online, and "community media" opportunities like YouTube really enable us to explore and create anything. The article implied how production costs are low enough for the majority of Internet users to create viable viral content for vast consumption outside of any political or rigid organization, and there's so much opportunity out there for anyone to voice their opinions, thought and talents. Rebecca Black certainly wouldn't be where she is now without that kind of opportunity available today, that's for sure.
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