YouTube is one of the many resources on the Internet that has significantly impacted citizen participation. The 2012 Campaign Advertisement video that I used for the last blog post serves to illustrate my point in the post very well. With YouTube, hundreds of millions of people are given access to the beliefs and views of people around the world in video form. Videos provide the most personal form of communication on the Internet because you are able to see the person moving, talking, and interacting visually instead of just reading what they said or seeing a picture of them. Videos on the Internet combines language and images to get a full, interactive project that demonstrates the individuality of the people who upload those videos.

This campaign advertisement for Trump for president in 2012 allows the person who uploaded it to effectively demonstrate his views, and gives the millions of YouTube users the ability to reflect on this person's views.