Meningitis is an inflammation of the lining around the brain and spinal cord that is usually caused by a viral or bacterial infection, most commonly affecting children, teens, and young adults. People have used new media technologies like social networking and online petitions to raise awareness about meningitis and communicate their ideas more efficiently by sharing information and forming communities around the issue on a national level. Web 2.0 allows for greater public connectivity and citizen-created media, enabling people to leverage online tools to support causes related to their real-world values, such as creating petitions to draw attention to meningitis.

1. WHAT IS MENINGITIS?
Meningitis is inflammation of the lining around the brain and
spinal cord. It is usually caused by an infection. The infection
occurs most often in children, teens, and young adults.

3. STORY
http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2016/02/23/harrowing-
image-of-meningitis-sufferers-last-moments/

4. THEORY
People have media literacy, as they are able to create petitions as
they can communicate their ideas efficiently and share
information about Meningitis. as well as awareness.
There’s more of a movement through the media because they’re
networked, a community forming to spread the news around the
country, by using the newer reformed technologies such as fibre
optic broadband and 3/4G. Would give them instant access to the
internet. “new opportunities for connectivity in public”.
Web 2.0 is used primarily for people to communicate with each
other, be able to respond and create media of their own form. So a
emerging citizen can use this to create things such as online
petitions for meningitis to cohere with their real life citizenship
and the values that they have.