Blogs And Democratization Summary

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In this story, “Blogs and Democratization”, by John Vivian believe it's a relation between blogs and democratizing. Blogs democratize mass communication with easy access for people, but nobody is monitoring the activities. The U.S Senate, Trent Lott was fired because Joshua Marshall thought Lott’s speech was racist. Marshall put a blog on his website and talked about him everyday. Other people began to join in and a few days later; the story was on the news then Lott was voted out. That shows that one person that nobody knew about can influence another person's life. Blogs have ups and downs no the internet. Anybody can see blogs but the access to the mass audience is a problem. It’s easy access for a person to post his or her opinion and to

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