So, what is ‘democracy’?
- democracy is a form of government in which all eligible people have an equal say in decision-making.
- ‘one person one vote’ to the modern media landscape
- The great thing is when you start seeing it in places like China and Afghanistan. It’s democracy. We’ve kind of given democracy back to the world. - Simon Cowell
- In the pre-digital era, there were very few ways in which audiences could make their voices heard.
- the digital revolution and Web 2.0 have given users (i.e. us – because we are no longer just audiences) the opportunity to communicate ideas globally through the use of social networking.
- in the countries now experiencing this ‘Arab Spring’, access to mobile technology and the internet is still limited to a relatively small elite, so perhaps we have not yet seen true democracy through the media.
- If information is power, then the internet has empowered its users by giving them unparalleled instant and almost unmediated access to unfolding news stories from a variety of sources, bypassing the hegemonic institutions that control the dominant media discourses in society.
- Blogging is another way that the media are becoming more democratic.
- the iconic video footage of the attack on the Twin Towers on 11th September 2001; the first hand reports from the Iran uprising – increasingly we are reporting and recording the news.
- citizen journalism can do is provide eyewitness accounts and subjective angles on stories to complement the work of professional news organisations
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