Monday, November 1, 2010

Citizen Journalism...

Citizen journalism is quite simplistic and candid in theory. Na just kidding… but seriously its really to the point. Actually you might even do it. So pretty much you know when you login into Facebook and may post on your status or on someone else’s wall about something like ‘OMG did you hear that Lily Alien had a miscarriage at 6 months’ (heavy I know) or ‘Kings of Leon have come out on their new music video and they are have premiered it on YouTube’ then attaching a link or even posting about the announcement about the line up for good vibes. That there is citizen journalism. But not only on Facebook, also on YouTube, MySpace (if people actually use it still), Twitter, blogs etc.

Now in technical terms it can be defined by independent reporting. “Citizen journalism is when private individuals do essentially what professional reporters do”. The information in which was privately reported by individuals are expressed through various mediums such as video streaming like YouTube, Podcasts, blog posts including text or audio and visual components.

Cool kids I hope that helped you on the insight of citizen journalism

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