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Has technology made the media more democratic?

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...

What is democracy?

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.