Express Yourself

           

        Through the use of YouTube, people can express their feelings on current events and issues such as this video with Chris Brown who was accused of beating up his girlfriend Rihanna.  YouTube is a site where people are coming together across space and time to globally connect with one another to feel a sense of association.  Through this site, the average person is able to say whatever they are thinking about any current event going on in the world, such as politics, war, or simply just celebrity gossip. 

This is a breakthrough in technology because for the first time, with this new and upcoming phenomenon people are able to see the other person who is expressing these ideas, this is important because “providing such facial and bodily information is likely to reduce undesirable online conflict… [this] conflict will be reduced when viewers can see that a real person is behind the video that are created and posted on the site.”  There will be less confusion and misunderstanding between the people sharing their thoughts and ideas as they are able to see how the other person is reacting to what they are saying. 

Throughout history we have always found ways to communicate our ideas with others, however, through the use of sites such as YouTube, we are now able to produce mass communication to people around the globe and even better yet, these people are able to fully see the person expressing these ideas, and are therefore able to grasp their concept much easier as it is as if they were having a conversation face to face. 

Sources: Patricia G. Lange.  Commenting on Comments: Investigating Responses to Antagonism on YouTube.  Annenberg Center For Communicating.  Tampa Florida, March 31, 2007.

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