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Citizen journalism involves ordinary citizens playing an active role in collecting, reporting, analyzing, and disseminating news and information. It is based on public citizens offering eyewitness reports via social media and the internet. Examples of citizen journalism include eyewitness reports from events like the 2005 London bombings. While citizen journalism can provide a strong consensus picture of events, it also brings concerns about the balance between fact and opinion in reporting.
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- 1. Social Media and Citizen Journalism Lauren Sfeir
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- 6. “based upon publiccitizens "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analysing, and disseminating news and information.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_journalism Bowman, S. and Willis, C. "We Media: How Audiences are Shaping the Future of News and Information." 2003, The Media Center at the American Press Institute.
- 7. “You can reallyget a good consensus picture of what’s going on that’s stronger than any one news organisation could offer… So many people are on the ground in different places. And people pick up very quickly which are the bloggers to read, and they bring that information forefront and amplify it” - Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia (Allan et al)
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- 9. Partnership Example – London bombings “our reporting on this story was a genuine collaboration, enabled by consumer technology…the result was transformational in its impact … From now on, news coverage is a partnership” (Sambrook, 2005)
- 10. Partnership (Sambrook, 2005.)
- 12. “As the Crisis deepens,the journalism has not.” (Schechter, 2005)
- 13. “What we needis “inside out” and bottom up coverage” (Schechter, 2005)
- 14. Value of citizenjournalism “We can actively ask questions of our audience that can build a rapid picture of unfolding events” (Horrocks, 2008.)
- 15. Time to talk Inwhat ways do you think citizenship journalism successful? How much of citizen journalism is fact, and how much is opinion?
- 16. Time to talk Whatare the positives and negatives of citizen journalism? Does citizen journalism have a positive or a negative impact on traditional journalism?