Based on unc's website and the analysis of Bill Tancer, media plays a key concept in what we see, hear, feel and believe. For starter's, the B.P. oil spill garnered much attention from the public through news reports, newspaper articles, magazines and especially the internet. Through videos, research and other intel that comes into through the world, the American people were able to learn more about this crisis and began to speak out about it. This in turn led to B.P. dedicating it's resources and assuring people everywhere that the oil spill would be taken care of.
As Tancer put it in his edition of Click, the Internet serves as a byproduct that aggregates our movements and provides a deeper insight into who we are and what we do. Just the same, watching the State of the Union address on t.v. or on youtube also gives us an insight as to who were are as Americans. We know that our nation's economy it at it's roughest point and we watch the news in an effort to gain insight in what Congress is doing to fix or alleviate the problem. And it is through the Internet, Blackberry and other digital resources, that we as a nation can learn more about what goes on in our day to day lives and how it reflects back to us: what we eat, what we drink, who to vote for, what movies to see, etc.
The Internet gives us the ability to do more than just express ourselves: it allows us to increase our options and to embrace the choices that we make in everyday society.
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