Media without Borders: The Rise of Democratic Platforms in a Globalized Era

Democratization of media tools and platforms is the basic need for contemporary world. After the hit of covid-19 pandemic media platforms and tools have grown up in the diverse situation to serve the humanity. It has shown some tremendous result to the globalized world and also shown that media too can give great contribution in the process of democratization. The rise of democratic platforms emphasizes on the rise of new media. Where platforms like; podcasts, digital media, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and blogging provide platforms to express the emotions and feelings. Democracy related to media gives the right to public to participate in media activities by extending media’s relationship to the public sphere. It also transcends the accessibility of technology to the less trained groups. Democratization of media platform mainly focuses on the access of media tools to the layman for preparing its content for themselves. This paper delves deep into the access of different media tools to the non-professional media content developers. The term ‘democratization of media platform’ mainly states that the tools or platforms for media should be easily available to anyone in this globalized village. Quantitative research method has been used in this paper to analyze the data from secondary sources. The data used to analyze the access of media platforms to the public is gathered from the official websites of the governments and other media agencies in the national and international market. Researcher also seeks the importance of internet and their role in the democratization of media tools and platforms. Some suggestions have been given to the media market and governments on the basis of highest used media platforms and their types of content after the pandemic in conclusion to fill-up the gap between the users of media specifically, the users of social media.