The new media helped to increase the awareness of people. The government is usually the one in …show more content…
Instead of relying on the government to deliver their voice and problems they face to the rest of the world, people now can upload, share and post anything they want on social media and YouTube. In this way, their voice reaches the whole world, even though the government’s official media may not report anything about it. This has advantages and disadvantages too; the advantages are the ability to deliver one’s message and opinion of the world while the disadvantages are non-reliability as for anyone can share anything they want, in the way they want to. So, it becomes harder to recognize whether what they share is true or not. Nevertheless, there is the comment section, where people can comment and confirm or deny the story. Through the new media, people became part of the producers of