BLOG: Blog vs. Wiki
Back in 2016, Statista Research Department correctly projected that the number of bloggers in the United States would increasingly rise to 31.7 million in 2020. I wanted to include this small but meaningful statistic to start off this post to really show the effect of blogs, and similarly wikis, in how they connect people and communicate messages from all different styles of culture and perspective. Blogs and wikis are powerful tools that are used to share information and create discussion with others. Although they both have these common goals in mind, they accomplish them in different ways. Blogs consist of one author whose content is seen by anyone around the world who has a stable web browser. Blogs form a sense of self assuredness on the author as it creates "a more authentic writing experience where they become the content expert and are writing to a targeted audience" (St. Scholastica). Blogs are considered to be opinionated journals ranging from topics of politics and...