Citizen Journalism - According to Answers.Com, Citizen Journalism is the concept of members of the public "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information". Citizen journalism is a specific form of citizen media as well as user generated content.
And, in the presentation we had this morning by Tai, Cherell and Stacey, Citizen Journalism are people from the public who were the eyewitness of an event (location advantage-presence when events were happening), and thus making citizen journalism powerful and immediate. In addition, Citizen Journalism focuses on news related to the public.
After doing so much research and articles on Citizen Journalism during the past 5 trimester, in my opinion, anyone of us, with or without journalism training are capable of being a citizen journalist, as it only requires us to talk about what happened during the event and giving and sharing your opinion on that event. No research on facts and finding are needed, as compared to the traditional media.
With the wide acceptance of Citizen Journalism in the present world, Tai had pointed out that journalists from Traditional Media, like CNN, too took up this human touch that Citizen Journalism had (for example, having a twitter or facebook account), and the started signed up for their twitter/facebook account so as to better connect to their audience. I feel that this move had shown that Traditional Media recognizes Citizen Journalism.
I feel that neither the Traditional Media nor the Citizen Journalism are capable of replacing one another totally, as both contribute their part to provide a wider and more diverse story on each event, where, traditional media is largely about facts and figures and Citizen Journalism had an location/ eyewitness advantage.
References:
Answers.Com, Definition of Citizen Journalism, Retrieved on 11 June 2010 from http://www.answers.com/topic/online-journalism
Thursday, 10 June 2010
Thursday, 3 June 2010
Globalization vs Localization (Who will win the match?)
In my opinion, neither Globalization nor Localization would win the match in the media industry. This is because both will combine and co-create to a new term 'Glocalization', which is exactly what Yiwei (One of the presenter of today's topic - Globalization vs Localization), mentioned that for global news to be accepted into the local content, the elements of that news have to bend and blend itself to the local culture.
According to SearchCIO.com, the definition of Glocalization is a term that was invented in order to emphasize that the globalization of a product is more likely to succeed when the product or service is adapted specifically to each locality or culture it is marketed in.
Even though, this definition of Glocalization is more suitable to be applied in the business world, however, I feel that if the news from for example, America, is not able to have any form of impact or effect the consumers in other countries like, Singapore, i believe that news would not be sought out by or even be on the newspaper of Singapore.
It's all about how relevant that particular news has on the local market.
For example, on November, 2008, the Mumbai terrorist attack, most Singaporean at first felt little on the terrorist attack. Until, when there was a Singaporean identified as one of the victim in the attack, then a massive reports on the whole situation had been seen and reported on local media. This formed a connection on this global news to local interest, and thus resulted in this global news in local media context.
In conclusion, for news to be called and presented as global news, it will always be presented as local news for the local community before it is spread out into the global news market when it concerns the local community in other countries, thus there's no globalization or localization, but glocalization - the hybridization of both terms.
References:
John Tomlinson, 2003, The global transformations reader: an introduction to the globalization debate, By David on Held, Anthony G. McGrew, pp269-277. Retrieved on 4 June 2010, from www.polity.co.uk/global/pdf/gtreader2etomlinson.pdf
SearchCIO.com, Definition of Glocalization. Retrieved on 4 June 2010, from http://searchcio.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid182_gci826478,00.html
According to SearchCIO.com, the definition of Glocalization is a term that was invented in order to emphasize that the globalization of a product is more likely to succeed when the product or service is adapted specifically to each locality or culture it is marketed in.
Even though, this definition of Glocalization is more suitable to be applied in the business world, however, I feel that if the news from for example, America, is not able to have any form of impact or effect the consumers in other countries like, Singapore, i believe that news would not be sought out by or even be on the newspaper of Singapore.
It's all about how relevant that particular news has on the local market.
For example, on November, 2008, the Mumbai terrorist attack, most Singaporean at first felt little on the terrorist attack. Until, when there was a Singaporean identified as one of the victim in the attack, then a massive reports on the whole situation had been seen and reported on local media. This formed a connection on this global news to local interest, and thus resulted in this global news in local media context.
In conclusion, for news to be called and presented as global news, it will always be presented as local news for the local community before it is spread out into the global news market when it concerns the local community in other countries, thus there's no globalization or localization, but glocalization - the hybridization of both terms.
References:
Channel News Asia, 2008, Singaporean Hostage Killed in Mumbai. Retrieved on 4 June 2010, from http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/393023/1/.html
John Tomlinson, 2003, The global transformations reader: an introduction to the globalization debate, By David on Held, Anthony G. McGrew, pp269-277. Retrieved on 4 June 2010, from www.polity.co.uk/global/pdf/gtreader2etomlinson.pdf
SearchCIO.com, Definition of Glocalization. Retrieved on 4 June 2010, from http://searchcio.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid182_gci826478,00.html
Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Who will pay for journalism? (The Economics of Journalism)
Who should pay for journalism? Advertisers? Government? Or the public who are consuming the news?
I suppose most people will feel that the advertisers should be the one paying for journalism due to the fact of the large number of advertisement on the newspaper.
However, if the advertisers should withdraw themselves from the newspaper and decided to go online to reach out to the much greater and bigger audience through the internet, and at a cheaper price, then who would be next in line to pay for journalism?
With The New York Times and and the Wall Street Journal movement to provide deeper and better analyzed news strictly to subscribers to their publication and in some way are quite successful in capturing the niche market who are willing to pay for news. however, this led to the question that whether the consumer should be one paying for journalism.
To my opinion, i feel that as both successful subscription based publication are in the USA, and that both publication had their best columnist, they are able to adopt to the subscription model and charge their readers with their 'Unique Selling Point' - their famous columnists.
But as a Singaporean, i strongly feel that my fellow island-mate, would not want to pay for any news, due to the fact that we love free things! Free Food from Expo, Free transportation from SMRT, Free smell from perfume stores and Free Newspaper from Today and Mypaper every morning given outside the train station. We will not care even if our publication like The Straits Time also have the best columnist like The New York Times, because we will only be concern about the economics of our own pocket and never others.
I feel that according to the 12 Business Model for the Journalism Industry, there is no one single model that suits the journalism market absolutely, but a mixture of different model to better suit the journalism industry.
I suppose most people will feel that the advertisers should be the one paying for journalism due to the fact of the large number of advertisement on the newspaper.
However, if the advertisers should withdraw themselves from the newspaper and decided to go online to reach out to the much greater and bigger audience through the internet, and at a cheaper price, then who would be next in line to pay for journalism?
With The New York Times and and the Wall Street Journal movement to provide deeper and better analyzed news strictly to subscribers to their publication and in some way are quite successful in capturing the niche market who are willing to pay for news. however, this led to the question that whether the consumer should be one paying for journalism.
To my opinion, i feel that as both successful subscription based publication are in the USA, and that both publication had their best columnist, they are able to adopt to the subscription model and charge their readers with their 'Unique Selling Point' - their famous columnists.
But as a Singaporean, i strongly feel that my fellow island-mate, would not want to pay for any news, due to the fact that we love free things! Free Food from Expo, Free transportation from SMRT, Free smell from perfume stores and Free Newspaper from Today and Mypaper every morning given outside the train station. We will not care even if our publication like The Straits Time also have the best columnist like The New York Times, because we will only be concern about the economics of our own pocket and never others.
I feel that according to the 12 Business Model for the Journalism Industry, there is no one single model that suits the journalism market absolutely, but a mixture of different model to better suit the journalism industry.
Friday, 21 May 2010
Online Journalism: the new era?
The increasingly advance in technology, benefited most of the public by providing them an additional arms and legs to perform stuffs through their desktop, laptop and even through their smartphones.
With these smart and portable gadgets, people are able to access to the latest news ever now and then. And with the varies functions on their gadgets; like camera and video function, too empowered the people to contribute to journalism.
The advancement in technology, thus meant that journalists are required to multitask, which led to the rise of a multi-media journalist. a multi-media journalist is a reporter, who is required to provide content for print, online, radio and often television who is also called the ‘super-reporter’ who is able to cover a story for every medium.
An online journalist is the most prominent example of a multi-media reporter. However, this platypus journalist is often criticized as “jack of all trades and master of none”, where the multi-skilled journalist would not be able to perform or provide information as well as a mono-skilled journalist in certain media. As the skills needed for a multi-media reporter are visual thinking, audio editing, writing for radio, online, pictures and image editing, and having to at least be able to do the minimum requirement of each skills, have resulted that the multimedia journalism to pick up a skill when he/she is doing their job on site.
Online News does not necessarily meant that the journalists are able to write more, but in fact the number of words is significantly lesser as reading from pc screen is abt 25% slower then on print, thus journalist should never put more content online than the newspaper due to the so-called infinite news hole online. Instead, information offered online should be easily digestible chunks and to remain text focus and keep images small, simple and easily understood message should be employed to help their readers digest stories more easily.
Incidental news consumption describes how audience today get their news from their daily life, thus news provider has to be everywhere all the time, offering the widest practical range of media formats, eg radio when driving, news report on tv when changing channels, headlines of newspaper when walking pass a newspaper booth while walking to the train stations, remarks of news from classmates while waiting lesson to start and etc. which further describes the importance of multi-media journalists.
Ending with a Question, Does technologies advancement do the journalism field any good?
I feel that it may benefited the audience with consumpted news, as with advance technologies, they are able to get their daily news almost everywhere they go with a tap on their favourite smartphone. However, for the journalists, advance technologies simply open up their opportunities in the journalism field (now they can do broadcast, online and maybe even citizen journalism), but, to work well within the field, they are too required to equip themselves with the skills needed to do their job well.
With these smart and portable gadgets, people are able to access to the latest news ever now and then. And with the varies functions on their gadgets; like camera and video function, too empowered the people to contribute to journalism.
The advancement in technology, thus meant that journalists are required to multitask, which led to the rise of a multi-media journalist. a multi-media journalist is a reporter, who is required to provide content for print, online, radio and often television who is also called the ‘super-reporter’ who is able to cover a story for every medium.
An online journalist is the most prominent example of a multi-media reporter. However, this platypus journalist is often criticized as “jack of all trades and master of none”, where the multi-skilled journalist would not be able to perform or provide information as well as a mono-skilled journalist in certain media. As the skills needed for a multi-media reporter are visual thinking, audio editing, writing for radio, online, pictures and image editing, and having to at least be able to do the minimum requirement of each skills, have resulted that the multimedia journalism to pick up a skill when he/she is doing their job on site.
Online News does not necessarily meant that the journalists are able to write more, but in fact the number of words is significantly lesser as reading from pc screen is abt 25% slower then on print, thus journalist should never put more content online than the newspaper due to the so-called infinite news hole online. Instead, information offered online should be easily digestible chunks and to remain text focus and keep images small, simple and easily understood message should be employed to help their readers digest stories more easily.
Incidental news consumption describes how audience today get their news from their daily life, thus news provider has to be everywhere all the time, offering the widest practical range of media formats, eg radio when driving, news report on tv when changing channels, headlines of newspaper when walking pass a newspaper booth while walking to the train stations, remarks of news from classmates while waiting lesson to start and etc. which further describes the importance of multi-media journalists.
Ending with a Question, Does technologies advancement do the journalism field any good?
I feel that it may benefited the audience with consumpted news, as with advance technologies, they are able to get their daily news almost everywhere they go with a tap on their favourite smartphone. However, for the journalists, advance technologies simply open up their opportunities in the journalism field (now they can do broadcast, online and maybe even citizen journalism), but, to work well within the field, they are too required to equip themselves with the skills needed to do their job well.
Tuesday, 18 May 2010
CMNS3420 - Journalism
this is the last trimester before graduating..
let's do our best once again and we'll be heading separate ways in the society..
remember to send out your resumes early.. =)
let's do our best once again and we'll be heading separate ways in the society..
remember to send out your resumes early.. =)
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