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
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