ALC215 Globalization and the Media WEEK6

Blogosphere

Our society and technology faced a huge reformation. The new media such as Internet have developed and widespread rapidly. The Internet social network for instance blog, Facebook and twitter had emerged and occupied people’ spares time. Every people can be a journalist or writer on the Internet. “In the blogosphere, which is multi-dimensionally connected with numerous hyperlinks, users have become able to receive, process, and circulate news and information in a novel way” (Lee, 2006: p1). Blog is a place allowed people to write story and news based on their personal feelings and knowledge. Other people whom interested in these can view them on their blog very conveniently. Blog world is more creative and more mixable. Bloggers can use hyperlinks to post video, audio or links of other websites in their blogs. Some blogs’ page views can climb over 1million per day. What an exaggerated number! 

Whereas blogosphere is not belongs to the public sphere. Public sphere is an ideal concept. The blogosphere is not really globalized. First, most of the blogs people posts are not professional compare to the newspapers or novels. Everyone can post article on blog. Some of the ideas may not true or bring negative affects to the audiences. Second, blogosphere can be bounded due to the geography and culture differences. For example, people from different places may use different languages and blog operators. People from some place that may not access to the Internet still can enjoy the newspapers and novels but cannot use blog.

References:
Lee, J 2006, The Blogosphere and the Public Sphere: Exploring Possibility of the Blogosphere as a Public Sphere, retrieved 22 Aug 2012,
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