“If all would speak who shall be left to listen?”

The second reading from week 9 was a blog post from Jay Rose, back in 2009, which discusses the topic of the audiences involvement in the use and production of media (in other words, ‘the people formerly known as the audience’). Rosen argued that it wasn’t the fact that there would be no one left to listen, but rather the fact that there are too many people speaking that is the problem.

I guess it’s the way that you look at it. Personally, I believe that the audiences involvement direction that we’re heading in is a positive thing, because it feels like everyone has a voice and a right to be listened to. But that’s because of the way that I perceive media as a network. I understand that others may probably see a problem in which the fact that there are too many voices that would drown each other out, but I feel that the involvement has made media so much more personal, that someone would always be listening. It’s kind of like how Mark Zuckerberg still has to abide by the Facebook rules and regulations, and has his own profile for the world to see, even though he is pretty much the God of the Social Networking realm.