“The old view of online as a separate space was an incident of history”(32). This quote can be referred to the story on the Korean market on the U.S. beef contaminated public protest. When reading this story it reminded me of the incident “Occupy Wall Street Issue”, because of the large audience it gain. One of the interesting viewpoints made from introducing to the readers this event is that media has changed and provided new ways in which individuals connect and communicate on political and social issues. Through these medias there comments become public, where thousands or millions of users are thinking or agree with your comment or statement and thats how a issues may get resolved. However, in order for this to occur we need group effort. For instance in the Korean candlelight vigil situation, the citizens and young female students who were too young to vote did turned to an online bulletin called DBSK that allowed them to publish there and give their views and comments on this disturbing situation on negotiation on beef imports. It gave them an “opportunity to discuss whatever they wanted , including politics.”(33). This created the population to grow and take part on this situation.
Clay’s purpose in introducing this topic was to show that the old view online and the real world were separated in the past and that the online population today is very different from the online population back then. Public media and personal media was separated in the past, today we have “computerlike phones”(37) and computers that allow us to stay connected with one another; which demonstrates that by the media providing the public domain an opportunity, it can make a change by a lot.
One topic that was highlighted in chapter two that relates to the Korean candlelight vigil was the race between the government and the people who were motivated to use the media as a way to get their voices heard. Until the government had to give in. This shows that the media’s opportunity to give the public a place to share their thoughts and opinions can make an impact on the government and make a change to resolve an issue.
Chapter three focuses and introduces the topic of Globalization how these new social tools that offer the opportunity to unite and organize events and foundations like in the case of Josh Groban where a few a his fans organized a foundation for him in attempt to give him a gift for his birthday. As a result, the foundation was a success. Through this story we can see that these social media tools have provided a public huge audience to get involved in group(s)s or be part of group(s) that define you or taht you feel comfortable. The story on Josh Groban also illustrates that fact being global or globalizing and event does not precisely need to be large for it to be a success. However, it should have a subject matter that motivates others to become a part of it.