The idea that the political right dominates the Canadian political blogosphere can also be seen in the views of other members of the Blogging Tories such as the blog Small Dead Animals, which ascribes to the view that Canadian conservatives "have been forced to listen while media and politicians alike have told me 'what Canadians think'...'You don't speak for me.'" Some content created by the Blogging Tories and Small Dead Animals has been criticized as offensive by others in the larger political blogosphere. The success of right-wing Canadian blogging lies in the belief held by the political right that they are a marginalized group within broader public discourse. To the individuals who comprise this subgroup of the Canadian blogosphere, right-wing political blogging is a means of fighting perceived oppression. This may explain its dominance. While conservatism dominates political blogging in Canada, data analysis from Ryerson University's Infoscape Research Lab at the Centre for the Study of Social Media indicates that left of centre political blogs are gaining track. In a tool specifically created to visualize the activity levels of political bloggers by political party affiliation (NDP, Liberal, and Conservative) on a day-to-day basis, it is evident that the more left of centre partisan blogospheres remain equally, if not more, active in recent blogging activity. Though this data is at odds with that described in the previous paragraph, a few arguments can be made. It is possible that while conservative bloggers outnumber those who are ideologically left of centre, fewer conservative bloggers identify as partisan. Alternatively, perhaps more conservative blogs exist overall, but are accessed and posted to less frequently than the fewer left of centre political blogs. It may also be that Canada's political blogging trends are mirroring those in Australia where a long-standing conservative government has fueled the numbers of left of centre bloggers- the emergence of more centre-left blogging in Canada may be a reaction to Stephen Harper's continued governance. Popular left-leaning blog aggregates include Liblogs and the New Democrats Online (now defunct). In "The New Public Sphere: Global Civil Society, Communication Networks, and Global Governance," sociologist Manuel Castells discusses the implications of the globalization of communication on the traditional Public Sphere. While the Public Sphere has traditionally been defined as "a network for communication information and points of views," Castells argues that media has become an essential component. As a result of this, he says, "the networked society organizes itself on the basis of information networks." This reorganization of the Public Sphere has resulted in what is now commonly called the New Public Sphere.