Originally made to annotate online information beginning in the year 1997, people today have a say, employing blogs as means of relaying information and research in a diary, journal-like manner. Regardless of insufficient professional and journalistic background, their opinions are both heard and encouraged.
Blogs are a good illustration of:
1. Profile and friendship building
2. Business and innovative promotion
3. Educational improvement
4. Political and civil awareness
Opposing critics dispute these notions, denouncing blogging as rather an invasion of privacy, a violation to traditional advertising and commercialization, a further creator of this generation's cultivated downfall, and too greatly changing the game of politics.
Bloggers don't reveal anything they don't want online; they reveal private information they want read, becoming tremendously personal with issues such as relationships in order to induce a more conversational approach to exploring societal issues. Therefore, critics subjecting blogging as lacking privacy are false, for bloggers don't mind if they have "personal information floating publicly on a networked environment," according to intellectual Ferdinand Viegas.
Bloggers grant professional advantages such as for business and innovative careers. Businesses can read up on the opinions of their own products and services, as well as the opinions about their competitors. It's a clever way of finding out truth, for simple commentary pieces such as these that need not be objective are a constructive way of hearing day to day discourse regarding their business. Hence, when critics allege blogging as contrary to tradition, they're right, but wrong to perceive it negative, for the proof is in the pudding. Blogging is prospering; orthodox means are not.
Blogging has sparked debate in the classroom-could it be used for scholarly purposes or not? I think yes. Critics are suggesting that by allowing blogging, teachers and students, as well as just the students themselves, can converse about topics in a more unique and interesting way-in which homework would not be so dreadful because they're merely having conversation on their feelings, rather than memorizing and learning factual knowledge. Whereas critics feel blogging is another source of research and reading diminution of today's generation, others believe it makes students formulate their own opinions on curriculum, and remembering functions easier because they associate their standpoint to the information to be known. Because they're forced to sit down and blog, they're inevitably forced to sit down, read and then write. Even more, it precipitates a more intimate teacher-student relationship, in which the more humane approach to viewing one another as more than just teacher and student generates greater success in school. Teachers make all the difference in the world, and blogging is a positive step to getting their influence more prominent.
Bloggers have increased political and civil awareness, by making information more fascinating in comparison to the solemn methodologies of endeavoring to raise familiarity among these topics. Bloggers such as Alexsandro Palombo illustrate unique techniques in getting points across that are often overlooked in the midst of all of society's clamor; he depicts through pop-art Disney princesses as Pakistan women who survived acid attacks, as their faces are rendered demented and twisted to look like the women that lose their beautiful face. It's blogs such as these that raise the most effective awareness, because who cares if it's Disney princesses?--If anything, the idea is more evident because it's so iconic and relative that anyone can interpret the true meaning behind his images. So yes, critics, they may be changing the game of politics, but in a way that is beneficial to society... a whole lot more beneficial than what's already been and being done.
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