'Mutant giant spider dog' tops YouTube chart
This news article looked at the best trending stories on-line and what people like. The first post on the article is about a Youtube video, where a polish film maker filmed his dog in a spider costume, since the video had been uploaded it has had over 113 million views. The next paragraph looked at Katy Perry's Dark horse video, which got 715 million views.
The article goes on to looking at more stories like this and how many likes they got since they have been released, but then article goes on to what a senior lecturer from social media and communications, and what he thinks about so many people liking videos like the ones above and others. This is what he said, "It's reassuring that the likes of YouTube and Facebook can reconnect us with both the lowest and highest forms of cultural content," ... "Despite that we need caution about relying too much on these platforms," ... "There's a whole debate about algorithms - particularly with news consumption - we have to be careful that we don't let the platforms themselves dictate too much to us what we should and shouldn't be watching."
What he is initially saying is that it is good that through these new media sites people are connecting with one another, however we shouldn't get carried away with what we are shown, especially with news.
I would agree with what he is saying, as the consumption of new and digital media has increased significantly over the years, and the amount of people that rely on strictly media to get their everyday news has also increased. Thus I think that people should sometimes maybe take a step back.
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