The new forms of media publishing is bringing all the people around the world together as well as making life easier. There are a few new media publishing that can be found in the cyberworld communities such as YouTube, Skype, Twitter and Facebook.
The new social media had arisen millions of content producers, and these content producers or readers had suddenly achieved a new level of power until we could change the way countries were run with one major initiative.
YouTube is an online video community which allows million of people to discover, watch and shared the video that you have created. (About YouTube, n.d.) YouTube.com was founded by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim in February, 2005. It was created for their friends to share their dinner party video clips as it was too large to email. But apparently, it has now become as ubiquitous as the mobile phones in our society. (Facts About YouTube, n.d.)
Below is an example of how powerful YouTube is :
George Allen was so confident about his Senate seat at first, he was already starting to visit early GOP presidential primary states in anticipation of an expected 2008 bid for the GOP presidential nomination. However, he had been brought down because of the publicly stating a racial slur on film which spread through media outlet like YouTube. (Welcome to the Fifth Estate, 2010)
Reference :
Welcome to the fifth estate 2010, Slideshare, viewed 1 October 2010, http://www.slideshare.net/geoliv/welcome-to-the-fifth-estate
Facts about YouTube n.d., Online Schools, viewed 1 October 2010,
http://www.onlineschools.org/blog/youtube/
About YouTube n.d., YouTube, viewed 1 October 2010, http://www.youtube.com/t/about
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