Web 2.0 allows people to become amateur journalists, letting them post information to the web using websites such as Blogger. This ties into peering as well as free creativity as people can create articles to share with friends or larger groups of people and even the entire Internet. An example of this Internet journalism and democritising of information would be wikileaks and the recent leaking of the secret documents from the US government. This means that the internet allows for a new age of freedom of information, that even government documents to be leaked onto the internet for everyone to see.
Another example of Internet journalism could be wikipedia as it allows anyone to gather research and edit articles effectively letting anyone to contribute to the massive only encyclopedia.
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