During the last ten years, social
media has had a sudden rapid rise. The Web 2.0 technologies that allow this
have been a part of an increasing interest in discovering the patterns of
interaction and content creation in which social media users involve. Major impact
was found on the first major social media form called “blogging”, while recent
social networking sites have been tested
participation in sharing and association sites such as Flickr and YouTube
as well as social networking in Facebook,
MySpace, and the most recent, Twitter (Bruns. et el, 2011)
Walter Lippmann wrote that all “reporters in the
world working all the hours of the day could not witness all the happenings in
the world. There are not great many reporters. And none of them has the power
to be in more than one place at a time. Reporters are not psychics; they do not
gaze into a crystal ball and see the world at will, they are not assisted by
though-transference.” Although “reporters” are “people” and as a person I think
it is fair to say that we have all at one stage or another have had a desire to
present the events of our own local worlds ourselves. This is happening now.
Due to the Internet and blogging, anyone and everyone is a reporter in the
sense that the blog postings of people from all over the world are starting to
find potential to know what is happening anywhere, anytime.
The map of the Arabic blogosphere
produced by Bruce Etling, John Kelly, Robert Faris, and John Palfrey for their
paper, “Mapping the Arabic Blogosphere: Politics, Culture and Dissent.”
http://www.flikr.com/photos/mideaststrategy/3634971698/
Reference List
Aaron
J. Barlow, 2007. The Rise of the Blogosphere. Edition. Praeger.
Bruns, A., Burgess, J.,
Highfield, T., and Nicolai, T. 2011 ‘Mapping the Australian Networked Public
Sphere’, Social Science Computer Review, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 277-287.
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