I've been thinking about how our understanding of what's going on in the world is presented through and shaped by the internet. I read a chapter about "New Historical Analysis" for one of my classes, and the basic premise was that history is not objective reality, but actually a story told by those who lived it which must be interpreted and analyzed as a text. With the internet today, we have an unprecedented capacity to hear multitudes of viewpoints on any event; much of the early insider accounts of the Mumbai attacks came from people sending tweets from the city. One account I read was actually from someone trapped in their room at the Taj.