BuzzMachine

* Jeff Jarvis, Image courtesy of http://www.buzzmachine.com/

 In ‘The Internet as a right‘ Jeff Jarvis argues that the Internet should be a right for every citizen, just like how in developed nations we expect to have water, electricity and in some, phone services and television access.

Jarvis raises many points to demonstrate how the Internet as a right can benefit nations.

My favourite aspect of this blog is the interactivity Jarvis encourages with his audience by asking them to leave their comments.

This enables a broad spectrum of opinions are voiced and therefore, creates enhanced knowledge amongst viewers.

Throughout this unit, I have been bewildered not only by the emergence of blogs and how popular they have become in our society, but mostly by how they have changed the content of news.

Blogs create a space for opinions to be heard and discussion to take place on events and issues that in a newspaper or on the evening news, audiences might never have been exposed to.

Jarvis’ ‘The Internet as a right’ is the perfect example of an interesting debate that, in my opinion, would not be considered newsworthy enough be to broadcast on the news or published in a newspaper and this demonstartes how blogs can enhance our knowledge and create opinions on a wide spectrum of ideas.