3) Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams brought out their theory, Wikinomics, in 2006 and I am going to apply one of the five big ideas to the media online. The media now has been democratised by peering, free creativity and we media created by Dan Gilmor, or so we think.
People would argue that an example of this would be wikileaks. I however disagree. The concept of wikileaks sounds democratised but in reality it is controlled by those either creating it and those who want rid of it.
Jullian Assange created wikileaks to show the world the hidden documents that the public doesn't get so see or read. I don't believe his intentions are all innocent and good. He tends not to think about the people who he is leaking this information too. Some things, I believe, we are entitled to, but in a BBC documentary I have seen on wikileaks, Jullian endangered the lives of people with some of the documents leaked. It named the people that had helped in the Afghanistan war and caused them to be targeted by the Taliban. He could have blacked out the names of those involved, being democratic, but didn't and dictated how he wanted it doing.
On the other hand, the people that want rid of Wikileaks are also anti-democracy. Jullian has been accused of indecencies in another country, uncomfortably close to when Wikileaks became increasingly popular and started to collect power. Those running the newspapers are either for or against wikileaks and the government has a lot of power over select newspapers, imposing their point of view onto the public. This is very democratic at all. The public doesn't want to be force fed opinions, especially when we haven't taken part in Wikileaks, but that is exactly what they are doing.
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