This week's lessons made much more sense to me as we learned about politics and and the internet. I suppose this is because it has mroe relevance to us due to the the US elections and the fresh memories of ads on facebook and on msn with Obama's gleaming face plastered everywhere and the words "VOTE" in bold, capital letters.
I admit after seeing the videos in class, the internet not only has changed the way each individual lives their life or how businesses run, it has or is in the process of changing politics in a huge manner. With the internet being a different world, hard to control with pretty much the entire world giving their wise input on anything from Paris Hilton's new hair style or scandal to intelligent debates about world leaders' rights, wrongs, what they should do and what they shouldn't do.
We no longer live in the traditional era of "Whatever the leader says, we follow."
The internet opens up opportunities for politicians to voice themselves in more ways than through a one hour televised session. Articles about politicians' ideas, speeches, quotes are available to audiences for a more permanent time period and allows them to analyse whatever politicians say. Youtube is great, because you can see the popularity of politicians or political subjects by the number of videos you find and the kind of videos you find too.
All in all, politics has become a more open subject now with the internet and today's technology. It's not just newpapers and news magazines that talk, people can go online, create their own blog specificall to rant or to boast about certain ideas and beliefs on politics which can ruin a politician or make them a hero in other people's eyes.
