Summary Of Blog And Blogization By John Vivian

In the article “Blogs and Democratization”, John Vivian talks about how anyone can make a blog and express their opinion especially about polities and also influence people. A lot of people today have blogs because it’s affordable and it’s easy to access. Although before the new gatekeeping rule, blogging had no code of conduct. They would keep stories “alive that’ve been played out. They inform the public about anything whether it’s a fact or not. Anyone can be a blogger, the internet is a mass communication tool anything anyone post can go viral just by the click of a bottom. For example bloggers kept the presidential candidate John Kerry and his office intern affair alive. Nobody could not ignore what was said and Kerry and his intern
would deny the allegations of course. Nobody did not have any evidence backing up such speculations. Bloggers are amateurs at news and have the lack journalistic traditions. Bloggers feel as though it their duty to give people the latest news on what’s going on in the world today. Bloggers are “unedited” and “unplugged” they report bad and good news. With the new gatekeeping rule bloggers has to watch what they say and post. For example the New York Times wants to use news from a blogger that have to get approval to use it and they have to make sure it’s credible. It has to be facts not an opinion. To be a blogger, you have to use the journalistic standards it’s a criteria they have to go by now.With the new gatekeeping rule you cannot just post anything. It limits on it now.