I heard this term this Sunday on ABC's This Week. It's a catchy phrase. What does it mean? This Week says it encompasses Blogs, "Youtube" and "Myspace". "Wikipedia" didn't get mentioned but I am sure it should be. Perhaps it covers "Open Source" as well.
With Internet now we can send each other quick messages, emails, live chat, video chat, have web pages for our personal or business interests, make loans to people in other countries, join discussions on any topic in forums and blogs etc etc. I can't list all the possibilities.
Internet has it's down side as well. Gruesome videos of deaths of hostages, exploiting of women and children for pornography. fraud, scams and identity theft. The sharing of music, movies, books, and software programs has denied income to the producers of these media.
However it could be said that the power of marketing individual artists has the effect of suppressing the development of local culture and creativity. These artists are elevated to a god-like status like sports stars, where such adulation can be as detrimental to them as well as their adoring public, who might rather see a concert than vote on their local council about issues that really affect them.
Whatever our opinions, who controls the internet, right now we have a piece of it, a piece of "The Digital Democracy". As an ESL student the culture you are immersed in, is changing and you are a part of that change.
Enjoy the Break.
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