HW 3: "Toward a More Participatory Democracy"

In order for me to summarize “Toward a more Participatory Democracy” by Burstein and Kline in the book blog, I would need to understand it more. From what I got out of it was the fact that politics is starting to play a role in blogging. I would think that many people would assume blogging would start coming up in the conversation of politics. This is because blogging has become a much more accepted way of communicating over the web. As Burstein and Kline explained in blog, at first blogging was only used as online journals. Blogging wasn’t used for people to state judgemental opinions, or even strong opinions for that matter. It used to be that one had to be careful with how and what he or she would say on the internet. From what I grabbed from this chapter, however, was the fact that, “political blogs have become a vital source of news and opinion for millions of Americans and an alternative to traditional newspapers and television” (p 6, Kline) Blogging is how people get their information. Especially when it comes to politics. The title of the chapter summarizes the whole chapter, we’re participating more in politics through blogging.