Is You Tube Mass Communication?

The media landscape today is as different as any the world as ever seen. Thanks to the power of the world wide web, communication between individuals has never been so colossal. As the technology was improved computers and internet connections where becoming faster, this lead to the ability to upload videos on to the internet. YouTube.com became the leader in the frenzy of online video libraries. The website started as a way to post your favorite videos, but soon turned into its own community. Users started commenting on videos using their own webcam to make a video, this has lead to lengthy video debates. This new way to voice your own opinion lead to what is currently taking place, the YouChoose '08, a channel on youtube.com for presidential candidates to post videos for everyone to see. YouTube.com now receives 100 million hits a day and is visited by 20 million people a month.