access media n. ability to express one’s views or have one’s voice heard in the sphere of publicly mediated communication. Even today (2016), some 60% of the world’s population do not have internet access. Acordingly, most of the world’s population have no access to either old or new media and therefore lack a public voice. Conversely, the powerful and the official, the celebrated and the connected, especially in the Western world, have privileged access to agents such as newspaper and television journalists in order to disseminate their personal views, most often in the support of the status quo. Their ability to make themselves heard has been characterized as having accessed voices.
