On the other hand, the development in technology is clearly seen by the huge amount of internet communication technology users. In this form of communication, the users are also the producers of the content from the internet. This dynamic relationship shows how the audience needs and their media use is intertwined. In response to these technological changes, Murdoch (2005) stated that mainstream media have developed online news sites where audiences are offered various levels of participatory access to the news process. There are many arguments that both support and contradict the emergence of online news sites.
Normal people use mobile phone dissemination and blogging to communicate plenty of current issues live across the world. The citizen generated contents are sometimes even used by the new organisations to add depth to their stories. Although citizen journalism is getting popular nowadays, traditional journalism, however is still going strong and it is still used to report about events happening worldwide every day as the messages conveyed are reliable and more up to date while citizen generated content have been known to be mislead the public. However, traditional journalism seems to be facing a very tough time at the moment due to the heavy usage of social media as a mean of disseminating news. People do not feel the need to buy newspapers anymore as the internet has it all. They can access the online news freely, anytime and anywhere. They can easily find out whatever that is going on in the world through these sources because all types of information about current news and events are easily accessible. Even journalists these days are using social networking sites to provide news updates.
In conclusion, there is no doubt that journalism has entered a new era of technology and it is modernizing our communication habits. To keep up with the zeitgeist, traditional journalism needs to strive to keep up to date with the trend with a focus to stay strong. Both citizen journalism and traditional journalism are two very different types of journalism. The fine line between both journalism is very obvious to the public. However it is good that the two are merging together to create a deeper meaning and truth to news stories. Hopefully the merging of the two will adopt aspects such as news and pictures from each other in order to make news stories more in depth and credible.
References:
Adams, D. A. (2006). Journalism, citizens and blogging.
Murdoch, R. (2005). Speech by Rupert Murdoch to the American Society of Newspaper Editors. American Society of Newspaper Editors. Retrieved from http://www.newscorp.com/news/news_247.html
Rosen, J. (2008) A Most Useful Definition of Citizen Journalism.
By Chew Zhu Ne (40854)
In my opinion, the competition among citizen journalism and traditional journalism is extremely strong nowadays. Indeed, as mentioned in the article, the traditional journalism really do go through a tough process nowadays. But this does not means that the "tough process" is mainly attributed by the citizen journalism. Citizen journalism, on the other hand, provided the new angle of the story as what we knew that the traditional journalism also cover the new with only one side. This is because majority of the traditional journalism is strongly linked to the government agency and also bonded with strong censorship. Therefore, With the existence of citizen journalism, we able to know the true story.
ReplyDeleteI strongly agree with the statement mentioning that journalism has entered a new era of technology and it is no doubt modernizing our communication habits.
ReplyDeleteToday, journalism appears in two forms, traditional and citizen. This happens due to most of the people today rely so much on media to communicate anything in their life. Back to those days where technology was not as advanced as today's, it is impossible for everyone to be a journalist. But in the today's world, any audience of news and information have the opportunity to be a journalist.
However, both traditional and citizen journalism have their own advantages and disadvantages. In my point of view, both citizen journalism and traditional journalism have to merge with each other in order to create more reliable news stories and in depth information for the public since they are two very different types of journalism.
Citizen journalism increases the speed in disseminating the latest news among the public. Therefore, the people today are no more relying on the traditional journalism to get the latest information. It is disseminating the news in a more efficient way. However, traditional journalism is significant too, even though citizen journalism is now emerging in our mainstream society. Not everyone is prefer citizen journalism, there are still some group of people are rely on traditional journalism. To them, the information published through traditional journalism is more reliable and trustworthy.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the emergent of traditional journalism and citizen journalism. It is because traditional journalist has to follow the ethic code while citizen journalist no need maintain any publisher's reputation. Citizen journalist can write anything as long as there is not seditious.
ReplyDeleteFrom my viewpoint, it is good when the two are merging together. Both of them writing the same news from different angles. These can provide more details to the readers.
However, readers need to be rational when reading news. Not all information given is the truth. At the same time, those what written out may be the opinion of the journalist.
I, personally feel like there are many dimensions to whether citizen journalism is a good or bad thing. For one, citizen journalism allows for a better-informed community; where everyone is equipped with up-to-date information and knowledge that was once difficult to access by the majority. At the same time, this makes it easier for the public to disseminate false information which may mislead others. This also puts the jobs of traditional journalists under threat, as now, it is more difficult for traditional media outlets to thrive in the age of social media.
ReplyDeleteThere are good sides and bad sides to citizen journalism. The good side is that news and information can be available almost instantaneously through social media. The moment something happens, it's already being seen and circulated widely on the internet. The bad side is that news and information needs to be verified as true before being taken as credible. In this age where anyone and everyone has access to social networks, it is not uncommon to see stories being fabricated for views or "shares". Therefore, these news are to be taken with a grain of salt, unless verified with a simple Google search.
ReplyDeleteIn my observation, today's generation rely heavily on citizen journalism. Everything goes around social networks regardless of whether it is true or not; but one has to have common sense and conduct research before believing in whatever goes viral. Traditional journalism often credible, therefore I believe one should make use of both types of journalism to keep up to date with what's going on in the world (citizen journalism) and to also distinguish which is true and important. (traditional journalism)
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