Week 1: What is the biggest issue facing blogging, citizenship and the future of media?

Internet is the main communication platform for most of the people today, and blogging is one of the methods for people to communication through the internet. A blog (web log) is a website that has different sections for users to display their information. Users can display their articles, pictures, music, videos on their blogs, and there are links to other blogs or web pages. It also allows readers to write comments on others’ blogs.

Blog helps people to interact and keep track with each other. We can get or exchange information through the blog. It is a good place for us to share information, but since there are many blogs and most of them are not creditable. Which blog’s information should people trust would be the biggest issue of blogging, citizenship and the future of media.

In cyberspace (or blog), it is easier to express our feelings. Not like the normal social situation which people need to communicate with each other face to face. Everyone could be braver to share their opinions online. But some people may have some radical views or exaggerated about their information. This will mislead other readers by those wrong messages.

The growing of blogging is becoming one of the major news or information sources. For my own opinion, I don’t think it can replace those traditional medias since it is not creditable. Readers should be careful by choosing the right information to receive and make their own decisions. And bloggers should behave themselves on their postings.