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Citizen Journalism
- The act of citizens "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information."
- Entirely citizen-generated content.
- Six types
- Audience participation (user comments to news stories, personal blogs, photos, or video footage)
- Independent news and information Websites (Consumer Reports, the Drudge Report)
- Full-fledged participatory news sites (OhmyNews)
- Collaborative and contributory media sites (Slashdot, Kuro5hin)
- Other kinds of "thin media." (mailing lists, email newsletters)
- Personal broadcasting sites (video broadcast sites such as (KenRadio) 1. .
- Mark Glasser
- The idea behind citizen journalism is that people without professional journalism training can use the tools of modern technology and the global distribution of the Internet to create, augment or fact-check media on their own or in collaboration with others. For example, you might write about a city council meeting on your blog or in an online forum. Or you could fact-check a newspaper article from the mainstream media and point out factual errors or bias on your blog. Or you might snap a digital photo of a newsworthy event happening in your town and post it online. Or you might videotape a similar event and post it on a site such as YouTube.
-Alex
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