What it is, what is was and what it can be

In this globalized world, people share political ideas, ideals and social affairs. We are concerned about what it is happening in the world, and Internet gives us the possibility to do so. This is just a small example of what global public sphere is creating. If you live in the West, what is was considered the world, you will have an idea of the facts that probably will not be reflected totally with the reality. Now, media tries to develop a new scenario where everybody can express their
opinions through the networks. My favorite example is Al Jazeera news channel. The revolutionary Arabic channel is now competing with the largest and until the moment the mainstream media broadcast channel. The polarization between the West and the Rest is now narrower.

Not only as a journalist, but as a citizen you must be able to create your own opinion of the fact. Governmental press and tycoon enterprises no longer have the power to roll the world in their own benefit. Now facebook, twitter and a variety of websites offer an alternative to inform the audience about what is happening across borders from different perspectives. The famous sentence "everything that appear on tv is true" is questioning, and therefore also media in general. There are many social movements that are trying to change the rules established from the elites. Occupy Wall Street movement is the current example of people mobilized to fight for what they believe. This movement started in New York was spread all over the world with physical manifestations, but also with virtual activism through Internet.

Taking the strikes on Seattle November 1991 against corporate organizations (anti-WTO) as one of the major examples of this social justice movements, we can see who people move away from government positions and express their ideas and opinions of what it can be a better world.

There are global issues that affect all of us, and if we do not express our opinion to create a real democracy, governments will continue acting as "everything for the people, but without the people"