Need an research paper on first topic: based on the definition of gatewatching, gatekeeping and produsage, try to critically analyse these positions and e. Needs to be 4 pages. Please no plagiarism. Along with the great possibilities, a number of critical risks and problems too have emerged in our wired world. The Shift from the World of Control Earlier, repressive regimes and authoritarian productions housed have nearly complete control over who writes what and who reads what. Now, such scenario is impossible with the heterogeneous content production by bloggers, Twitter and Facebook users and millions of internet activists. Even big media houses are now quoting from blogs and uses tweets and Facebook updates as genuine news sources. For instance, in the controversy of Bush’s nomination of Harriet Miers as Supreme Court Justice Candidate, Bruns points out that “CNN and other news organizations accepted bloggers’ voices as and obvious part of the U.S. mediasphere, a natural indicator of public opinion on the nominee” (2008, pp. 247-8). Earlier, the controlled world of knowledge and information was characterized by gatewatching and gatekeeping which was materialized through the works of middle man, reporters, editors and censors (Bruns, 2003, p. 36). At present, on the other hand, the new media technologies have caused a paradigm shift in the realm of content production by eliminating the hierarchical structures within and by an “unprecedented transformation during the past decades, from audience as passive consumers of media to users as active content creators (Burns, 2010, p. 24). The co-production of content by the users is enhanced by the invention of internet tools such as blogging, filesharing, and feedback and comments (Reading, 2006, p.2). Conclusion The media sphere in the twenty first century is no more entirely controlled by the big sharks. Still, the digital divide exit between the Global South and Global north is a matter of grave concern. Also, the irresponsible use information technology such as addictive gaming and social networking must be resisted. In brief, the privileges of the network-information society must be deployed for the services of the underprivileged through people friendly technologies and digital interventions. References Bruns, A 2003, ‘Gatewatching, not gatekeeping: Collaborative online news’, Quarterly Journal of media Research and Resources, Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy, Vol. 107, pp. 31-44. Bruns, A 2008, ‘Gatewatching, gatecrashing: Futures for tactical news media’, in Megan Boler, Digital media and democracy: Tactics in hard times, ed., Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Pres, pp 247- 270. Bruns, A 2010, ‘Distributed creativity: Filesharing and produsage’, in Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss, Mashup cultures, ed.. Vienna: Springer, pp. 24-37. Firedman, TL 2005, ‘The world is flat: A brief history of the twenty first century’, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Reding, V 2006, The Disruptive force of Web 2.0: How the new generation will define the future , Youth Forum, ITU Telecom World, Hong Kong, Europa, viewed 11 March 2011, Topic- II The Dynamics of Identity Formation in the Network Society Introduction Identity formation has become one of the most contending topics in the contemporary network society. The digital and the identity are closely related in an increasingly globalised world.