Essays on Blogosphere

The movie “Julie and Julia” touches upon diverse issues. It is a very interesting movie to analyze. It can be discussed in terms of blogs, cuisine and people’s relationships. Mostly, the movie discusses the life of women. In the Julie/Julia venture, Julie Powell utilizes her blogging to bring others into her space. By opening her family life to others, her kitchenspace turns into an open space, however just in the digital sense. By expelling protection and segregation from the mathematical statement, the limits of the kitchenspace are redrawn. The blogosphere is a comprehensive, group based, and generally open ...

The impact of the digital world on the social surroundings has been growing over the past decades, along with the access to the internet, spreading of mobile technology and increased interest in non-conventional information transfer mechanisms. The discussion around blogging and blogosphere, as it is referred to by the scholars is very closely linked to the ethical questions, concerning communication and information exchange. The reality shows that the freedom of communication and expression of opinion comes very close to the definition of the concept of democracy. And, yet, even the traditional and, presumably, well-defined concept of democracy causes numerous ...

In today’s fast-paced social media based world, it is important for corporate brands to establish a web presence. However, for some corporate brands, there is less of a need to do this, primarily because they are the web presence. Take, for example, Apple Inc. As a titan of the technological and World Wide Web industry, they have had little need to join the social media maelstrom, as other brands have felt the needs to. Other companies establish a web presence because that is a better way to be known, while Apple Inc. allows there to be a web presence at all, creating an almost ...

An Examination of the Case of Zacharevic’s Art and the Lego Brand, with a Focus on the White Washed Johur Bahru Mural, from a Political Economy Approach (Student’s Full Name) An Examination of the Case of Zacharevic’s Art and the Lego Brand, with a Focus on the White Washed Johur Bahru Mural, From a Political Economy Approach

Some persons who have had the chance to view Ernest Zacharevic’s mural in Johur Bahru (JB) in Malaysia may share the same sentiments of expressed in the above quotation. Persons may have differing opinions of whether or not it was ...

The internet has revolutionized the world’s means of communications. Nowadays, the internet has become the source of the most urgent and recent news. News posted on the internet can be accessed by everyone across the globe at the same time. One of the outstanding internet portals that have taken the world by storm is the blogosphere. A blogosphere constitutes all blogs, as well as their interconnections. Blogging, on the other hand, denotes social networking services that allow authors to publish their opinions daily. In other words, their posts are arranged in a chronological manner. Blogs have become significant sources ...

The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing our Culture is a text by Andrew Keen. Keen is an entrepreneur and has long been an open critic of the Web 2.0-based Internet culture that has emerged since the year 2000. Keen's book, The Cult of the Amateur, is concerned with the cost of Internet culture. Perhaps one of the most important statements that Keen makes regarding the rise of the Internet culture as it exists today is that the culture is similar to Marxism in that it creates a dearth of professionally-quality content. When discussing The Cult of ...

In the book, there are many issues that the author brings to the attention about journalism in America. The authors start by stating that there was massive layoffs and increase of bad news. The book records that there was massive layoffs of close to 6000 journalists in the year 2008. There were newspapers which were being closed. There were reported bankruptcies of the decrease in sales of advertisements. The classified sections of newspapers were dwindling. All these are presented in chapter one of the book where the authors argue that the problems that were experienced came as a result of ...

Media plays an important part in our lives on a daily basis, and we see and hear about it in the form of Mass Media, Participatory Media or News Media. Media has always brought people closer to each other, and it has also brought in a revolution among people when the most sensitive issues are covered by the news channels, newspapers or internet media. As reasoned by (Starobin 16) in the National Journal on Media, the article “In New Media Image is Still Everything” attention-grabbing and informative as it portrays the advantages and disadvantages of the CNN effect, shows the impact ...