Scott Hakimian’s Blog

With the growing footprint of technology in our lives, a majority of people have come across blogs and wikis while surfing the internet. While both sources of media serve as fountains of knowledge for people, there are some differences that diverge the two sources.  A blog is an online page where an exclusive group of authors writes entries onto their online page. Depending on the blog, the main purpose of the blog can vary in terms of information. Some blogs serve as personal journals while other blogs serve as an outlet of information that consumers can intake. As the type of information varies drastically from page to page, the audiences of blogs vary as well. For example, the 2008 BayRidgeTalk.com Brooklyn blog was drawing tons of attention from neighborhood residents to keep up with the local news. Unfortunately, in some parts of Brooklyn, residents were active on the blog because of the high traffic of drug dealing and homicides in their neighborhoods. One resident fear...

I chose to do my research paper on the relationship between social media platforms and old media in respect to accessing audiences. Previously, if someone wanted to take their opinion and reach the public at a successful rate, that person would have two avenues to follow; either have some sort of credentials to make themselves reputable enough to reach audiences, or spend thousands or millions of dollars to get their opinion onto a TV or Periodical production (ex: CNN, NYT, etc.). Nowadays, people are getting their opinions to even, if not bigger, audiences around the world through the usage of social media. Platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube all allow users to create FREE user accounts and produce content that can be seen by the entire internet. This difference in getting content out to audiences is every interesting and very significant in my opinion.