HW 1: Only The Start of Global Blogging

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In blog! how the newest media revolution is changing politics, business, and culture, Kline and Burstein explains how blogging is becoming a global success. In the introduction, they talk about the blogs and how blogging impacts different groups in society. A variety of people are actually becoming united by blogging. There are even different blogs in different languages, such as Hindi, Urdu, Arabic, Farsi, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. In my opinion I think that this could be an upbringing experience for different cultures. In the opening sentence, it shows us that not only Americans use blogging. In fact Kline and Burstein states that “there are numerous examples of how blogs are already changing culture and politics around the globe.” I believe that it is a good thing that blogging is going global because we can find ourselves connecting with these other countries.
Even though we are probably the biggest blogging country, I feel as though other countries like China can really benefit from these online blogs. As Kline and Burstein mentioned China has actually been impacted by the influence of blogging. The government, technology, and the voices of free people have improved immensely.