In this 21st century, the world has come across many new type of technology and evolution. One of the greatest achievement of all is the birth of the internet. The birth of the internet has given a big breakthrough to many new discoveries, the transfer or fast information sharing and communication. One of the main focus of this particular article is the birth of citizen journalism as how it came about and its nature.
Citizen journalism is a trend where by everyone plays the role of journalist. It applies to the active role of ordinary people that take interest in conveying the happenings that is happening around them. In olden days, news could only be received from the newspaper or any broadcast media. Only the people working at these places could provide us with news around the world. With the birth of the internet, individual importance has been given a recognition. The internet helps in connecting everyone and thus gave birth to citizen journalism. Through the internet, even the most shyest person on earth could be heard. there are many sites that becomes a hot spot for citizen journalism to take place such as Facebook, Twitter, Blogs and as such. Another technology that further enhances citizen journalism is the invention of the smart phone that allows us to
When a breaking news happens, the first person to know about it are the person that are nearest to the place of incident. At the current timezone, they could be the first one to expose of to tell about it to the world. this could be done as simple as, connecting to your smart phone to the internet and posting up a status on the facebook or even tweet it in tweeter. Facebook and Twitter has somewhat become one of the fastest source or news in the world. Big international news such as death of Steve Jobs or even national news such as the blast of Empire gallery shopping mall in Subang Jaya Malaysia was known in between few minutes as the incident or event occurred. one of the main pro's of citizen journalism which is the speed of information transfer.
Furthermore, cotozen journalim is done without going through any editors editing and this means the news will be as raw as possible. There is nothing to worry about the news may have been tempered due to government regulation and so. But this may arise a question weather, the news may be or may not be true or credible. To a certain extend citizen journalism may only be be considered as an open source of information for our personal knowledge but cant be used as a credible base to do any important work on unless the information is gotten from a very reliable source. This new trend however has given opportunity to everyone to become a journalist. It opens oppurtunity for everyone has a say upon their part and voice out to be heard.
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ReplyDeleteI catch your one typing error: last paragraph first sentence, "cotozen journalism".
I am quite agree with you, citizen journalism is now done without editing or filtering and news will be as raw as possible, means fresh news and more first hand, reveal reality more.
We can use blog, social networking sites such as Twitter to write whatever we want. It is good to have citizen journalism now, as we have more platforms to deliver our thoughts and news. However, not everyone will pay attention to all the citizen journalism because too many available through the Internet now, even searching is also difficult. I can say citizen journalism could lead information overload.
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ReplyDeletesame as xin yee said.. typo...haha cotozen?
anyway... i certainly agree that citizen journalism is now usually done without going though a whole complicated process...and since news these days are so easily to get and most importantly its timely and new...people would want a piece of news that is timely and valuable too.... just like the recent Empire Mall that exploded, many people rush to the scene just to get pictures taken and as many information from the authorities in order to publish to the media and some to show among their circle of friends too.....what's more with latest social networking like Facebook and Twitter, getting news quickly is even more crucial as everybody wants to publish first.... this certainly creates more competition too....and with citizen journalism... it creates the flexibility in obtaining news without taking in to consideration whether you are journalism or not...=)
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ReplyDeleteI agree that citizen journalism does deliver to us the untainted raw news, with no editting from any editors what so ever, but as you said credibility is questionable here. When we read a news we want credibility and the full story which usually the citizen journalist cannot provide. However, is good to at least that something has happened and hopefully the news will cover even though there maybe some cover ups. Thus i think citizen journalism does bring the news to us fast as a way of saying "just so you know..."
Hey Kiru!
ReplyDeleteCitizen journalism is a definitely a term today which is practice by many people especially users in the internet today, accident happens the Facebook users are the first to know compared to the media. People are able to be on the spot using their own phones as cameras which actually really do explains the situation a lot whole faster rather than having one person to narrate it out which will consume a slightly more time. Raw video footage's as Ivan mention will give an overall view of the situation which is happening in a news, also sometimes these people on the spot will ask question which we could listen through the capture footage of the raw video
I agree with your points. I'll just edit abit to define it in my context. Citizen journalim is done without going through any editing and this means the news will be as raw. There is nothing to worry about the news may have been tempered due to government intervention or organization interference. But this may arise a question whether the news may be or may not be true and credible. To a certain extend citizen journalism may only be be considered as an open source of information for our personal knowledge. The code of ethics also is important in examining this view. Some journalist might be writing for exterior motives, and using unethical means to obtain news (such as hackers and speculators).
ReplyDeleteWhat do you think?