After this week's reading I have to say I am not sure if there is more or less democracy or maybe we are just more aware of what is going on in the world today because of the internet. Listening to the video I started to think how can we truly compare from 20 years ago. There are so many opinions and even spin on data because let's be honest we can make data look like whatever we want and today with the internet we can google what we are looking for and find the information. We are not guaranteed to find confirmed information or supported statements but if we looked we could find someone who agrees with our opinion so I wonder often where do we stand?
I do not think we can find an answer to this and in fact I would say we are probably very close to the same as we were twenty years ago but we are more aware of things around us. Anything from politics to weather to stock trading and I think the younger we are the more comfortable we are with the internet and the more likely to believe what we read.
