User:SpartanReggie77/sandbox

Freedom from the Press: "Blank" found that user created content creators utilize a type of gate-keeping as it concerns the comments on their publications. Some bloggers require approval by a moderator before comments can be added to a post. At times comments are disabled altogether.

When the gates swing open: "Gatekeeping is not just about agenda setting in terms of media. It also has also extended to the technological gatekeeper.  They monitor the flow of technical information in and out of an organization.  An example would be content manager for a knowledge database.

Journalists are gatekeepers for a reason: It has been established that journalists are attempting to meet the needs of their audience. They identify news and then report it.

How way-finding is challenging to gatekeeping in the digital age: There are entire websites dedicated to filtering and reinterpreting the wide range of available news.

User-generated content gatekeeping: Gatekeeping has not only shifted to include the consumer but also technicians and computer software.

Between pulitzers and pajamas: A related battle in the discussion of the media gatekeeping is that of traditional journalism versus the blogosphere. Political have increased their audience as well as their scope of activities and ambition. "Blank" considers it an alternative form of journalism that can possess traditional journalism's sought-after qualities while omitting some it's drawbacks. The main criticism of traditional journalism is the lack of control by the user over the content they are presented with. Blogging utilizes the community to perform a type collective editing. As consumers interact with the blog and each other on its behalf, the popular grows calling more consumers into the fold. While this will certainly allow the user to decide for itself what news needs to be out front, the blogging has its limitations as well. Because anyone can blog and can do so without editing from above with professional standards from the trade-craft, filtering the information down to its most essential components is often overlooked.

Forbes article: Gatekeeping is not censorship. Gatekeeping is about ultimately about maintaining the quality of the content whereas censorship is the removal of discussions about disagreeable topics.

Google Chrome article: Google enjoys a healthy market share over browers and the technology that powers them, putting them in control over how we access the web and and how the web works in general.