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Surveillance requires database. And this also related to new media technology, computer and the internet. Internet can be an inherently democratic and empowering technology. It can dramatically enhance the surveillance capacity of a country. The use of database related to both positive and negative liberty. One of the positive aspects is for medical use. If everybody is in a well-established database of blood type and medical record, he would have much larger chance to survive when he emergency episode. Therefore, many countries are working on establish a better medical database including China. Government not only established the database for medicine use but also for enhance its power over the public, which can be regarded as the negative liberty of the surveillance. Government has the right and power to trace for every single signal which they assumed to be distrustful. Actually, no one lives i

In Chinese universities, the subjects of international politics or international issues seem to be more than domestic issues. We can also figure out this phenomenon in the mainstream media such as TV programs, news, newspaper, etc. They tend to discuss international issues more than domestic issues. However, we can easily realize that the multitude tend to be more interested in the domestic issues. The reason why the international news is reported more frequently than domestic issues can be most of the mainstream media are run by governments. And government regards some of the domestic politic issues to be sort of sensitive. Therefore, they control the traditional media closely. But some new media such as internet seems to be a more democratic public sphere for the multitude because of its decentred. The traditional media audience might be more interested in some materialistic qualities while inte

The traditional video journalist needs lots of equipment for news reporting, such as computer, video camera. Sometimes professional VJs even use an outside broadcast truck which costs several million dollars. The problems of those numerous equipment are obvious. They are heavy and not convenient for carry and also very expensive. Although journalists usually would carry a camera, sometimes they still forget it. When valuable news happens, they might not be able to catch it. As a result, these years, journalists use their mobile phone to report live breaking news. They can easily shoot the video bye the mobile phone and upload it by using Wi-Fi. A mobile phone is convenient to carry and nearly everyone owns one. The smartphones or iphone can even add hardware to improve the quality of frame and also be installed software or apps to edit

The forms of gathering information are changing from time to time. The major traditional way of gathering information can be library. Ancient libraries were very limited to the access while they usually try to collect the original documents. In this way, the information can be comparatively accurate. In modern society, we collect information by digitalized forms such as search engine. Search engines try to gather as much information as they can. The scale of information is incredible and the access is universal. Even the scale of universal or digital library cannot compare with the scale of internet search engine. A resent research shows that about 13% students in the survey reported the first step they took during the research process was using a search engine. If the information required should be more academic, many people will search it from Google Book project. However, the Google Book projec