CIS 3810 Lanka Vidanapathirana

Both blogs and wikis are used to share information to an audience via the internet. This information can include videos, articles, and images. A blog is a bit more personal, since the blog creator is the one who gets to post information and other users can only comment on a blog. A blog creator can create his/her blog with their own preference in regards, to design, accessibility, and content. Specifically, bloggers link to other blog posts, documents, and articles, in a reverse chronological format. Blogs can be used for collaboration by sharing each other's points of views through the blogger and guest blogger who writes a comment. This also allows for the blogger to go through the commentator's blog and write comments, thus creating a collaborative connection. Whereas a Wiki, is more of a collaborative platform, since multiple users can add, edit, and change content. For example, " Wikis, by contrast, ar e collaborative only i n retrospect someone has to be prepared

Rules and regulations are different across each country; the same applies to media policy and regulations. I find it interesting to see how media policy is regulated in other countries, especially the internet being one of the largest media providers. Even though the internet may be used for media in every country, there are media policies and regulations that formulates the differences in media content in each country.  Some may say, that here in the U.S we have great media rights due to the first amendment (freedom of speech/press), but others may say that the first amendment is not fully enforced which restricts the content of media. I will go over, the similarities and differences of media policy and regulation in other countries and how that shapes the content that is produced. Not only does media policy and regulations affect media information, but this also affects the way people in other countries receive information. In a sense, the government's regulations and media polic