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OSP: Influencers and celebrity culture

 Q1: Through the use of user generated content. Which allows anyone to come up and create their interesting and unique content that is then fed to the consumer and has chances of some success but it is much more harder nowadays due to billions now using the web Q2:Western views like Capitalism has spread throughout continents like Africa, Asia and has spread its ideology mostly everywhere as the internet is mostly   Q3: By continuously accepting sponsors from advertisers and continuing to make money off them they delve in the idea of capitalism due to just buying and buying all the goods you can. Q4: It is an example of Post modernism due to the mix of styles that users use to create all the content they can. It also is much harder to tell what is real somewhat and what is fake. Q5: The content showcased may be dangerous to view for certain demographics like kids or the elderly showcasing content like that can alter their idea of certain topics that may be sensitive so deciding to put

OSP: Clay Shirky - End of audience

 Q1: The negative dangers of the internet developing is the uprising of hackers/data stealers who can access more information due to the increase in population of the internet. Q2: A government policy that allows users access to platforms or systems with very few constraints or restrictions on their use . I do agree with this concept. Q3: The need for regulations as the future of the internet comes into view the regulation and policy needs to be updated. Q4: Most of the internet needs to be regulated especially social networks like Instagram, Twitter that actively have people with a decent following with racist/ very prejudice views on certain communities. Q5:  Clay Shirky argued audience behaviour has progressed from the passive consumption of media texts to a much more interactive experience with the products and each other. New digital technologies and social media has made connecting and   collaborating  incredible  easy. We want to like, follow, tweet, repost, cross-post, comment,