Public sphere – enter the age of enlightenment!

Finally after my tutors wise words (John and Richard from Bournemouth University – I thank you) the subject for my MA first assigment and focus for the course came to me – like a blinding revelation of what and why.

The blogosphere and how it is changing todays political landscape.

The more I read about the role of media (mass) over the past few decades the more the subject has come alive.

And my mission is to plot the change of how politics has been written about, how citizens have been informed and topics of the day / political issues debated since the 17th Coffeehouses where some of the greatest minds came together to debate over a cup of coffee..

These times are fascinating as we are witnessing the coming I believe of truly democratic debating through the internet and specifically via the social networks and blogs which more and more people are engaging in.

So has the blogosphere changed the public sphere…

That’s that what my essay will be discussing.

So next installment to the blog coming soon – in the meantime I’m sharing some great political commentary via these cartoons from a great website called www.londonsketchbook.com

And learning how to use the tools on this blog.

Also great excitement as I will be interviewing some very cool people next week as part of my MA assigment – I can’t tell you how thrilled I was when they said yes.

So will be posting the video clips to this blog too.