HW 11 Applying Graff Ch 6 to "Making Global Voices Heard"

The blog I choose was Global Voices, the world is talking are you listening? On this blog anyone is able to blog. The most commonly blogged topics have to do with the large numbers of the world’s citizen. Global Voices is trying to redress some of the inequities in media attention by changing the power of citizens’ media. By using a wide variety of technologies such as weblogs, podcasts, photos, video, wikis, tags, aggregators and online chats. After reading “Making Global Voices Heard” and MacKinnon’s statements about global voices I believe that her statements still correspond to what is being said on the blogs today. I believe that it corresponds to my understanding of what I read because MacKinnons stated that the main reason for this blog was to allow people to be able to post the most important and most interesting information about all the different places in the world (Blog! Pg 332 Kline & Burstein). And after visiting the website and reading several of the blogs I thought that many had covered a variety of different topics about many different places. For example, one blog had talked about China and traffic cops getting machine guns and had different opinions about if this was right or wrong. Of course, many will probably disagree with the assertion that MacKinnon’s and the global voices don’t truly correspond because the different topics they both talk about I believe that they both have the same general idea.