Organic Media?

Media and Communication technologies like Televison, Radio, Internet and Telecommunications are converging together and are fast becoming the utilitarian tool of the masses. They are making people more connected and bringing them closer. “The recent expansion of global access to voice-telephony has almost been violent. During the 1990’s, wireline phone access shot upward; while, increasing from a tiny base as recently as 1990, one billion mobile phones were in use by 2002” (McChesney and Schiller; 17) “The Internet is increasingly becoming a part of our media and telecommunication systems,The relatively recent phenomenon of blogging or Web Logging, (the process of maintaining a personal journal on the web, which can be accessed by any one any where in the world with an access to the internet or the world wide web), has been growing at a phenomenal pace too. A blog tracking real time search engine, which monitors what is going on in the world of web logs, called Technocrati, claims to be monitoring over 34.3 million sites and 2.3 billion links, with about 70,000 new blogs being created a day – that’s about one a second, 700,000 posts daily or about 29,100 blog updates an hour”. ‘Blog’ – What was till recently a typing error has now become an organic phenomenon, multiplying and proliferating across the globe at an unprecedented pace. But still does Global mean Universal?