Part of the beauty about new media is that everybody has a voice and can act as fact-checkers, right? So somebody posts that Steve Jobs had a heart attack, and within a couple hours that is debunked by the collective power of the online realm.writes John Zhu.
But is that really the case in the world of new media?
He asks
In this supposedly more democratic, more open, more equal, more free-flowing online marketplace of ideas, do the loudest voices — the most visible personalities, the ones with the most followers — still drown out the smaller voices, even though the little guys can now talk back to the big names?
It is a good point especially when one considers the sheer amount of information available online.It is impossible to look at all sources of information so what do you look at?
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