Learner Response

Learner Response: 
New/digital media has allowed the audience to interact with the news and access it more freely. A new concept that supports this is citizen journalism which has been on the rise ever since one of its first examples being the Rodney King video of the police beating him up after a high speed car chase; which in turn started  riots in LA in America. This had shown how effective citizen journalism is as ordinary people now are able to break news and report on things they may have seen or heard. A theorist in support of the pluralistic argument is Al Gore as he states that “the internet is an empowering tool.. and exciting and revolutionary prospect.” In many ways Al Gore is right as it has empowered many ordinary people into reporting news. This shows that NDM has allowed audiences to become more democratic and equal.