Digital Democracy

1. Citizen journalism is when any ordinary citizen plays a part in gathering and analysing news. There have been citizen journalists for years because the idea to investigate what we are being told by the media has always been an issue. In the past people could only contribute to the news by writing small articles for newspapers or posting a letter to them, but with the rise of the internet and blogs the news process has become more personalised.

2. In her article Emily Bell talks about how everybody plays a role in the media and how the media has changed recently, for example the internet becoming an effective news communication system. The article examines the effects that new technologies have had on people as well as our society as a whole. Overall the article examines weather news is just for journalists anymore.

3. The googlezon video raises crucial issues about what will happen in the future if our obsesion with the internet continues. Among the issues the video raises there is the idea that the internet will become very competitive over customers and competition would increase leading to some sites being forced of the internet. One of the more frightning ideas presented was that the internet would soon know more about us than anybody else because it can see what you look at, this means that people would just become targets for advertisments. If people keep giving away personal information to the internet then it will gain the power to run our lives.