Blog Assignment 2 Information and networks: 1.I believe that David Sarnoff law of “ the value of a broadcast network is directly proportional to the number of viewers.” If you take any viral video from the Internet the law directly states how it becomes so popular and continuously grows. The popular videos become more popular and exponentially, through sharing and reposts. Sarnoff originally used this law to describe the social surroundings in a television setting but these laws can be used on other mediums. People tend to sort by “most popular and trending most” in every social aspect of the Internet. If you think about social media being another type of “news” that we take in , we filter news stories by most popular the same say that we filter our social media . Media is spread by the word of mouth off of the Internet as opposed to reposting or reblogging on the web. I agree with this law because it is a set universal of “rules” media trends tend to go by , on and off the internet. David Sarnoff was ahead of his time when he created this law. This is important when it comes to creating and setting trends. This can be used to explain how people of the same sort of demographic are exposed to similar likings via social media sites that their share. Another example of two friends being exposed to the same YouTube video on their cell phones through a sorted list of highest videos ranked. I think the web has a powerful effect over those who are searching for the latest trends. This gives a connected feeling that is shared mutual throughout those that run through similar trends. This is very important for companies that are trying to hit certain specific demographics 2. Most people will want their news and social media filtered to their liking. People are already considerably picky about what there are exposed too, and it is only headed closer that way. Ex. information given to the user through a filtered database of news