HW3 Blogging Democracy
“Toward A More Participatory Democracy”, by David Kline is about how blogging can be good and bad toward political elections. One of the main reasons that blogging is not good for the political elections is the dissatisfaction for the public and how they think that it is acting as a “neutralizer” for the media. One of the main reasons that blogging is good is that the candidates get fead back from the public and what they think the candidate should do. My response to “Toward A More Participatory Democracy” by David Kline was that at the same time that i believe blogging can be bad for political elections, I also believe it can be benificial. When reading this i thought that having a candidate blog for part of their campaign was good in the way that they get feedback on what their voters think and they get to get there positions across to more people in a new way. I also thought as I was reading that blogging can potentially be bad for the candidate because then they put them selves at risk by being online. I also believe that by campaigning online isn’t the right way to go about it because then all the people don’t know if its really the candidate that is saying all that stuff. They can loose a lot of voters that way. I believe that blogging for political reasons can go both ways.
HW2 Personality and attitude, your true self
I read Dan Burstein’s essay “From cave painting to Wonkette: A short history of blogging.” In this essay he states twelve key ideas one of which he says “Blogs are particularly interesting because they marry so much personality and attitude with this complex mix of software technologies.” I picked this key idea to talk about because I think that it is a very true statement that blogging definitely helps people voice their own opinion by being able to write it down. Some people are too shy to say what they think about a topic, so they don’t share what they are thinking even if it could be very helpful. Blogs help with that situation because instead of getting embarrassed about what they have to say they can just write down everything that they are feeling about any one subject that they choose. Even though someone is shy or isn’t very confident with themselves to voice their own opinion out load doesn’t me they don’t have something meaningful to contribute. This key idea that Burstein has presented is important because everyone gets to show who they really are through software technology until they are comfortable to be able to be themselves out in the world. Blogs let people be who they are and be able to show the world who they are through the web.
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