Citizen journalism is a modern take on journalism that has at its basis the involvement of public citizens, who, “play an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information” [1]. The website We Media has been writing and researching the topic of citizen journalism since its early days. I have found some interesting material on their page that I would like to share. To quote: “According to Wacker, the world is moving faster than people can keep up with it. As a result, there are fewer common cultural references that can be agreed upon. Ideas, style,
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Citizen journalism
“Do not hate the media, become the media” Citizen journalism is a phenomenon that is older as of the story of the web form itself. As a premise, citizen journalism means journalism created by non-professional writers, which usually using the web as the platform to easily spread their articles, create their own news not depending on any editorial line, than their own political sentiment of the day or the life. Nowadays the way that citizens journalism is structuring is a little bit different from the past when little websites were created ad-hoc to share thoughts or scoops, and it is built more