HW 5B

In the chapter “I Blog, Therefore I Am” by David Kline it talked a lot about how blogging is giving people a chance to have a voice, be heard and how its making the world a more democratic society. Kline emphasizes how popular blogging is going to be and how it will take over mass media. I do not deny that blogging will be very popular but I question if it will be the ruler of mass media. I still believe that television and the internet itself will be the main news sources in the media. I agree with him when he says that most young people don’t read the newspaper anymore which used to be huge in the 1960 to probably the 90s. The generation now, however is more interested with what they’re saying on the news or internet. I don’t think my generation has really gotten into the blog world, but maybe that’s just my point of view because I had never heard of blogging before this class. Also when he talks about the fears of blogging and says that they are a lot like the telephone or telegraph when they first came to our society. I question the familiarities between the two fears. I think they’re should be worries about blogging because let’s face it; the internet isn’t the safest place. At least there are restrictions for the phone but on the internet you don’t know who the people are responding to you, and I think that could be a major worry. Although I agree with most of what Kline has stated in this chapter, I reject the thought of blogging over powering mass media. I guess I will just have to see and wait on how popular it gets.