'We Media' and Democracy

Over the years, the wordsmiths at OED look for a new word that is used that perhaps sums up the time we are living in or that has been used frequently in discourse. In previous years oxford english dictionary's words of the year have been... 2006 - Bovvered 2009 - Simples 2015 - Emoji 2016 - Post-truth 'Post truth'  is defined by the dictionary as an adjective "relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief. Editors believe that the term 'post truth' had increased by around 2,000% in 2016 compared to the year before. Collins dictionary word of the year in 2017 was  'Fake news' . It is defined as false, often sensational, information disseminated under the guise of news. The word saw an unprecedented usage increase of 365% since 2016. Experts claim the Atlantic Ocean is 75% too wet & Pole dancing reclassified as an Olympic sport. In a...

I n the past , the media in society was less democratic as it was harder for the public to share and discuss their own view points. This was due to people not being about to voice their opinions in the papers – they could submit something that they wanted to put in the newspaper but there was no guarantee it would be put in them. Also, not many people could afford TV's meaning only the rich had them - even for people who had them, there was very limited channels to view the news on.   Recently , social media forms like Facebook and Twitter has allowed people to share their views which then makes it easier to influence other people. Due to the proliferation of technology, every person now has the ability to comment on any kind of video and share the opinions freely with more people than ever viewing it , more people can share their views on what is happening around the world and make up comedy videos about people we dislike thus enabling them to voice their opini...

Personally, I believe that democracy is a good thing to have in our society today as it allowed us as a country to decide who we want in power depending on their political views - it allows us as the public to have a say on how we would like our life to be like. As well as this, due to the freedom we have it allows us to protest against things that we do not believe are right and start partitions for things we believe are right. Places like North Korea I believe have no real quality of life as they are just fed false information by the government and have no access to the outside world - meaning they have no idea what its really like to have an opinion.