Before reading this article, I immediately looked up “Bus
Uncle” on YouTube and watched it.
Some parts were funny but most of it was kind
of irritating how the older man wouldn’t stop arguing and fighting with the
other man. If I was on that bus I would have gotten up and told the man to
relax! This video really proves how the smallest thing caught on video and
posted on to YouTube, can go viral within minutes. The fact that people can
comment on videos or re-post a video response or their own version of the
original video makes communication on the web even more open.
“Unlike
in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when elite opinion prevailed, new
media have now made mass opinion possible (van Ginneken, 2003).” New media like
YouTube has opened up so many doors for mass communication, and allows people
all over the world to talk to each other.
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