This blog I am responding to chapter 1 in Blog! Toward a More Participatory Democracy by David Kline. The chapter was based on how the media has a critical effect on politics today. The media we face every day is controlling the world and it manipulates the mass media. I’ve always believed that blogging was a way to gain more information and give you reasons to believe that something should be the way it was besides the feelings you felt. Bloggers today have such a dramatic impact on the American political scene. Frank Barnako stated that he felt no one really reads blogs and he felt as if they wouldn’t have an effect on the political elections. Political bogs were the most popular in the 2004 presidential election and the top 10 bogs had over 28 million visits from readers on average. Blogs were known as, “A genuine alternative to mainstream news outlets, a shadow media empire that is rivaling networks and newspapers in power and influence.”
I feel that what Kline states in this chapter is very true. At the same time I believe that blogs have a positive outcome and give you other ideas about a certain topic, I also believe that there might be some negative side effects meaning that they may change your mind and the way you actually feel and have you believe what they think because to you it sounds better regardless if you believe it’s true. Political blogs are coming up all over and they inform us about the society we live in and what we each feel is going to happen when a certain figure takes the stands.
Political bloggers have given us thrilling and new opportunities for more engaged voters to restructure this country’s political outlook for the better. It is proven that political blogs are on the uprise and more people are reading them every day to improve their knowledge and see how their peers are also feeling about the topic. In 2004 there was a total average of 33 million blogs readers in the US.
I feel that what Kline states in this chapter is very true. At the same time I believe that blogs have a positive outcome and give you other ideas about a certain topic, I also believe that there might be some negative side effects meaning that they may change your mind and the way you actually feel and have you believe what they think because to you it sounds better regardless if you believe it’s true. Political blogs are coming up all over and they inform us about the society we live in and what we each feel is going to happen when a certain figure takes the stands.
Political bloggers have given us thrilling and new opportunities for more engaged voters to restructure this country’s political outlook for the better. It is proven that political blogs are on the uprise and more people are reading them every day to improve their knowledge and see how their peers are also feeling about the topic. In 2004 there was a total average of 33 million blogs readers in the US.
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Lori, this summarizes the chapter and offers your own response, as the assignment requested.
In some places in the post you've indicated what your source was, and in other places it's less clear.
Don't let the reader be confused about who said what.
When you summarize a source over several sentences, remember to keep referring back to the author or title so that the reader knows that you're still presenting the author's ideas and not your own. Blogs are becoming more relied on than the mainstream media, as Burstein notes, because people...
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