Blog Essay Final Draft

Arthur Chung
Professor Huey
English 155
11/22/09
Blogging
What is the big deal between Johnson’s article over William’s? It is the big deal of the difference of the mass media and what controls it takes on its audience. Within this blog there are many controversies that will be discussed such as the description of Web 1.0 and Web 2.0. Also there will be two people that will be discussed and what is their theory on the mass media and how it takes a major role in majority of our lives. The mass media plays a role of what we see and hear on the news channels. The media displays the news they want us to hear so that they would have control and power over the small people. Although William’s article opens ideas to one party but it is Johnson’s article that is better because it has more pros over cons and Johnson’s article is a benefit tool. First off Johnson’s article helps new writers and journalist get a good foundation, it allows them to build up their reputation in local areas before reaching to the next level. It is also good to think Johnson because Johnson’s article deals with local news and it allows people within the community to know what is going on.
First off that will be discussed is Johnson and is claim as an author. Johnson believed that Web 2.0 is a beneficial tool. Johnson says it is a beneficial tool because it allows small people or local communities to discuss variety of different issues or ideas that is ignored by the large mass media. It is not the mass media’s fault for not understanding or talking about local ideas. It is that the mass media aren’t experts at everything. That they don’t understand everything until it is notice on national level. How it all starts is with an idea or discussion that starts from the beginning of local or online discussions until it is notice in the upper media. It is with this that new ideas come up as Johnson says, “amateur journalism and encyclopedia authoring in the vast marketplace of ideas that the web has opened up” (Johnson, pg. 447). It is William that is next up on what is his take on Web 2.0. William believes Web 2.0 is negative and that it can hurt us by being closed minded to other information. William believes that web 2.0 is an abundance of information that is too democratic. This means that we as people give out everything in terms of information to people. From those people only find information or view point that agrees to theirs and they will isolate all other information that doesn’t agree within their terms. For this is very closed-minded and negative, this is what William believes. The difference of Johnson and Williams take on Web 2.0 is that Johnson believes that it is a beneficial tool, as William believes it is negative. It is that Johnson believes it allows people to discussion their ideas with local conversations. As William believes that no one is going to care for the information unless it pertains to him or her. It is that William said, “Consume only what you wish to see and hear” (William 450). This quote means that people only want to hear and see information that agrees with their viewpoints. It is that most people who are not well known journalist or as labeled “small people” would like Johnson’s view because it gives people a chance to get a idea or story out to the public. It is for some their foundation on building their name as a journalist. It allows journalist to build their foundation by reaching out to local communities and online discussion and state their claims. It is reasons that make both Johnson’s and William’s claim reasonable and creditable is that Johnson can help build new writers in local communities and be still known around the area. That Johnson claims that media is not experts to online discussions well this could help amateurs because in the beginning when a journalist writes they are not well known until the get notice to a national level. But this could be a negative to Johnson to the fact that once a journalist becomes a someone their information would probably wont be notice to some audience for it might not agree to their terms. This would be William’s claim, to the fact that some people will only pay attention to what they want to hear. It would depend to the audience to which Author would fit them best. If a reader had to determine which side would be best picked for them. What would have to be determined? It mostly deals with what a person does in their daily life and political views. As Johnson deals with media on how local ideas aren’t notice in the large media and Williams deals with people only looking up news and information that pertains to them. So it really depends on the person to which side is best for them. If a person were an amateur journalist, Johnson would fit that person. So that person could build a foundation and get experience of the media. Now if a person was a politician and had to protect their political beliefs, Williams would fit that person because the politician would only look up their beliefs. It is what most people would stand for is for Johnson because Johnson’s claim is more of a opened mind view as Williams just sounds closed minded as only people would look up news that relates to them.
There are much local news that would be talked within communities that would never get notice by big news channels such as NBC, CNN, Fox News, and etc. There are many people that make websites to talk about major issues and problems within their community. Such as, there is a website made by people who are angered about the research they have done and the importance to our planet and that it wont be introduce to the large media. This website talks about many local news but today we will only talk about one of the articles. This article talks about how the Ph balance in our waters are in critical trouble. There has been many research that our ocean waters are in danger for soon we would all have to make decision to protect our planet or it would be to late. This website is www.projectcensored.org and it talks about many issues that doesn’t make head line news. For my article is number three on top news that doesn’t make it. Its that this article fits best for Johnson because its research is done by many local people and that the reason it is not notice to the mass media is probably because the mass media might not understand the meaning and the issue that is being said. For the media are experts at everything and this might be one news article that the media might not understand. This article gives good reason why Johnson’s article is better because that probably this ocean danger article wasn’t notice because of the complexity that might be not understood to the media. As for it wasn’t ignored because this didn’t agree to someone’s views, as Williams article would say.
This is for people that are against Williams would agree with Johnson simply because Johnson holds more useful tools over William’s claim. It is that Johnson is more useful because it lets people know what is going on in local area, helps gives foundation to new writers, it teaches the large media new things from reading local ideas and discussions and it provides new information to the public. It is that William’s claim is simple but a little to simply. It basically states that people only want to hear and see information that pertains to them and that is why William claims it is negative. Though there is only one negative to Johnson’s claim is that “experts in traditional media have largely ignored” meaning it is the reason why local ideas are not known because it is not announced in the large media until it is reached out. It is like Wikipedia, it was until recently my class has learned that Wikipedia has added a new policy to their terms of being a user or editing pages. This Wikipedia article we had read is an example of the large media vs. the small media. It is that this article was only known the local discussions and didn’t make the upper news line. For this was important to the larger audience.
With a little of research it is founded with evidence to support the media and Web 2.0. Within the research that would fit best in this blog is founded two articles that talks about the upcoming of Web 2.0 and the new media technologies and success of Web 2.0. Within the first article it talks about the media and how it puts forward five observations of the up coming era of web 2.0. “(1) New media communication belongs to the domain of relations communication; (2) the communication character of the new media is telelog; (3) Metcalfe's Law offers a good description for the communication effectiveness of new media; (4) the study of new media communication should be shifted from message communication (which focuses on websites) to relations communication (which regards people as the center of the study); and (5) the essence of new media communication is not technical” (Chen and Ding pg. 13). The purpose of this quote is for my audience to understand that these are the views of other people on their take of web 2.0
Within the second article of new media technologies and success, it talks about the media on how it plays a role in our daily lives. “Platforms has put at the centre of academic and industry discussions the participatory potential of internet-based media” (Nico and Salvatore). With this quote it is talking about the develop of the new media from using an alternative to traditional systems. It is the world of the media we live in. Media takes a major role in all of our lives. From the research that is shown it is that Johnsons article that makes the most sense. It is that Johnson’s views are the most useful tool over Williams. Even not picking which one would fit a person best, Johnson’s article plays in the role of our lives even though we don’t know it. Such as many young adults are using Myspace, Live Journal, Facebook, and many other different blogs these days. These live blogs all play in the role of Johnson’s claim.


Annotated Bibliographies

Johnson, Steven. It's All about Us. 6th ed. Boston: Bedford/St.Martin's, 2009. Print.
Johnsons is a bright man that has many good ideas and views of how our media works. It is that Johnson says that the media aren’t experts to everything and the reason for using this quote is to show my audience on what Johnson is saying. It is that this short quote talks about how new and amateur journalism brings new ideas to the media. That I is good to have new ideas.

Williams, Brian. Enough about You. 6th ed. Boston: Bedford/St.Martin's, 2009. Print.
William is also a creative man, but in his article it talks about how people only pay attention to media that pertains to them and that is the reason I had choose this quote because it is the direct words on what he is arguing. That people only want to consume what they want to see, hear and to ignore everything that disagrees to their views

Nico, Carpentier, and Scifo Salvatore. "Introduction: Community media's long march." 27.2 (2010): 115-18. Print.
The reason for using this quote it to show people on how people think on the new media. On how tradition is being broken and that the internet is are new source of information. That now in days we don’t read the news paper anymore but that we get our information for the internet.

Chen, Xianhong, and Guilan Ding. "New media as relations." 2.3 (2009): 367-79. Print.
It is that Xianhong and Ding are researchers and that they study on how media works. It is that I had liked this quote because it talks about how media is major role in our life and how it works. Also it is the same agreeing view as Johnson. So it shows my audience that Johnson isn’t just one person with one claim. that it is more than that because other people think the same on our media.