citizen journalism - slides.pptx

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MUHAMMAD DANIAL BIN IDRIS

2012165999


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One of the most successful branches of journalism

Involvement of war correspondent

Profit & propaganda oriented

journalism of conflict value bias towards violenceand violent groups

Bias toward reporting only differences betweenparties, and assuming that one side's needs canonly be met by the other side's compromise ordefeat


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is the act of a citizen, or group of citizens,

playing an active role in collecting, reporting,analysing and disseminating news andinformation, in order to provide independent,

reliable, accurate, broad and relevant

information.

Bowman & Willis, 2003


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Individuals, group of citizens

carried by driven motives or objectives

subject-matter specialist or opinionatedcommentators, or also everything in between


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Journalism is in the middle of an epochaltransformation, as momentous probably as the

invention of the telegraph or television.

Project for Excellence in Journalism,

Columbia University


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Professional journalists face precariousposition, feeling threatened

Online audience able to become activeparticipant in creating / disseminating newsand information

Sept. 11 incident, generated most traffic totraditional news sites in the history of theWeb

During first few days of the Iraq War, 17% ofAmericans used Internet for principal sourceof information about the war

Following the Columbia shuttle disaster,NASA called upon the public immediately tosubmit eyewitness accounts andphotographs


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Triggered by three critical elements:Open Publishing, Collaborative Editing,

Distributed Content

Amateurs+

tools of modern technology, global distribution ofInternet


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Audience participation(user comments on news stories, blogs, photographs orvideo footage from personal mobile cameras, or etc.)

Independent news and information Websites

(Consumer Reports, the Drudge Report) Full-fledged participatory news sites

(one:convo, NowPublic,OhmyNews)

Collaborative and contributory media sites

(Slashdot, Newsvine) Various "thin media" (mailing lists, email newsletters)

Personal broadcasting sites


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Challenges Media Hegemony

The institutional press as the exclusive, privileged,trusted, intermediary of the news.

Citizens As StakeholdersIn Journalistic Process

no more accepting news or stories passively

making their opinions heard by sending e-mails,

posting criticism They are now also supporting or funding

independent editorial enterprise.


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Freelance web blogger & journalist

received $14,334 from 320 people who

funded his trip to Iraq to report his first-hand observations of the war zone.

Filed daily dispatches on his website,

about the fall of Tikrit and reported onthe regions ethnic tensions.


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information plays a pivotal role in running the world

today at all levels The progress of technology, Internet, and emergence

of the new media all have contributed to the rise ofcitizen journalism. More and more people are

stepping into this direction by taking matters intotheir own hands to gain first hand info on all theevents occurring.

unimpressed with the roles that citizen journalists

played, it is the current reality. They have to adaptbecause citizen journalism will keep expanding as longas technology and Internet grows.

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