This is an example of a cultural shift. The broadcast culture has transformed into the participatory culture. Because of the advances in technology, typically more people have the power to spread news quicker than the typical news or radio station can. This is also why, the emphasis on checking the credibility of news sources has become stronger and stronger, because many uncredited people and sources are the way we get our news.

I am guilty of believing a lot of the false "breaking news" incidents that are listed below, unless it is completely outrageous. I guess I'm the gullible audience that tabloids aim for! Next time I see another "breaking news" post or video, I will think twice and consider some of the tips that were listed.

Twitter's verified news accounts automatically pop up on my feed and are where I get most of my credible news. I honestly hate watching the news on tv (probably because it reminds me of old people). Through twitter, I can always keep up with the world events and happenings without torturing myself to watch channel 6 news. I can get the same amount of information in quarter of the time.

By collaborative effort, the stolen SideKick was found. This collaborate effort was pushed by the internet. It is impressive to see how much the internet can help expand knowledge and information in a way that was not even possible 25 or 30 years ago. If it wasn't for the internet and Evan's webpage, that precious article of a bride-to-be would not have been found.

Because of the internet and the emergence of social media, almost nothing is sacred anymore. This is the main reason why one should be careful of how much information of themselves that they put out on the Web, because almost anyone can access it. Even if someone does not have a social media profile, if their name was googled, there is a very good chance that something would still pop up, maybe due to the type of job, status, felonious records, the people you are associated with, etc. All in all, this article be careful what you do on and off the Web and social medias.

This sentence reminds me of the element of group projects in school. Before, when I was younger and had to do group papers and presentations in my early high school years (before Google docs was introduced and became popular), putting all of the group's work in one place was always a huge task. Either one person had to set up the document/powerpoint and everyone had to email their work to that one person so it could be copy and pasted into one spot, or a flash drive had to circulate within the group so that everyone could put their work on it. Now, with Google docs, collaboration is easier now more than ever. Everyone can work on the same thing at the same time, and Google Docs always automatically saves work.

I have always noticed that google filters the sources that it will give dependent on your personal website settings. Stricter google search settings give you less if not no nitty gritty sources than looser settings. Little did I know that was a part of the filter bubble

This continues to make evident that even though the users of the internet MAKE the internet, we still do not have as much power as we think. This power is in terms control over the how others handle the content we give out as well as the content given to us. This video opened my eyes about search engines and how we as people will see only what these search engines will let us see.

This talk is my favorite out of the two videos that we had to watch. I learned that the internet tools that blind us from the outside views and events can be the same tools that can open our eyes to the outside world. It is not necessarily our fault that results are being catered to local likes and needs, but we can to something to open our eyes to different people, sources, types of thinkers, and information. Staying relevant with worldly topics is important, and even with filter bubbles, it is still possible to step out of the comfort zone of only what's going on around you.

In the early stages, the surfing the internet freely gave more access to worldly happenings. Now, you only see what search engine generators want you to see. How can we encourage the search engine and social media companies to give us a more global view of news?

Heavily censored internet bases remind me of how the internet is censored in China and other communist countries. I thought that the upside about having internet access in the US was because there was little censorship. We are a free country with a free democracy, but why are our internet searches filtered as if we are in a communist country? Democracy is definitely affected by this filtering. The less aware Americans are of foreign affairs outside of our element, the less educated decision we will make in our own government systems.

By the internet becoming centralized, easier to use, and catering mostly only to our preferred interests, we as users are put into a comfort zone. We don't usually seek coming out of that comfort zone either; and that in turn blinds us from what is happening in communities other than ours.