Gilmor’s theory suggests the idea of ‘citizen journalism’. He argues that we see “the internet as a catalyst to challenge the big media powers, as ordinary people can post their news via blogs and other online communications’. Gilmor’s theory suggests that an increase in globalised media has positive effects on distribution and consumers can now become producers (web 2.0). A positive example of this would be the Syrian Arabic protests. Although news correspondents are unable to enter parts of Syria due to government restrictions, through an increased in globalised media with distribution, local suffering citizens were able to let the world know about their issues, an example being the internet video programme youtube user 25Bahman1389 posted mobile phone footage of Syrian Protests on youtube. Through this globalisation this account of citizen journalism was able to be posted around the world to highlight the problems. This suggests a positive impact of globalised media.
However, coming from an economically developed countries point of view and affluent society where internet access is readily available, it is far too easy to assume everyone has access to this. Leadbetter’s theory of 2008 supports this as he claims that “only 4% of the Arab nation has internet access’ so although globalised media can have positive effects on the distribution of media text, the less economically developed countries are unable to receive this distribution due to the inability to access the internet which suggests that globalised media is not as global as can be argued.
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