Advantages And Disadvantages Of Citizen Journalism

What are the risk and opportunities of citizen journalism?

Introduction:

The political domain is another area where social media is creating both opportunities and risk for society. The only way to access to news are used to be through mainstream media such as television, newspaper and radio in the old days. But that condition has changed by the internet age. The Traditional journalism is facing a tough time because of the 'social media ' became the most used source, mainstream media becoming less important because internet has it all. Most people now day uses the web to access to news in all sorts of places such as google, Facebook, YouTube etc. Yet the mainstream media think that citizen journalism is a threat due to

As it is stated that many people look at citizen journalist as lack of ethical and professional legitimacy. Most citizen journalists are not motivated by the desire to get to the truth instead they deliver a point of view. Mark Bowden makes a point " when journalists do not have the time or skills, someone else will step in to provide ready-made stories.The lack of resource in journalism means these stories go straight on to the page or the screen, and so are effectively endorsed by the publication." (Phillips october1, 2009). Citizen reporter provide independent information that the traditional media doesn 't provide such as death related picture or video. But is it accurate and reliable? No one knows. ' citizen journalism isn 't really journalism ' says Prof.Hazinski, 'its gossip, where 's the training, experience, standards and skills essential to gather and report news? It open up the news flow to the strong possibility of fraud and abuse. ' He says ( The Blog May

As a society , people have been accepting new as fact. If is on the news, its true, because the mainstream media have their people who 's job was to check if the source is reliable, but everyone who read the stories should know that the story may or may not be 100 percent accurate, just like the weather forecast. Citizen journalism are just as important as professional journalism, and in some case, its more. Its journalism that let the regular people to capture moments that happened around the world, of course the source came from a professional journalist, that 's what most people think, however, people don 't really know the importance of citizen journalism. The event captured by citizen journalist can be share on all sorts of social media such as Facebook, YouTube, twitter etc. before you know it. the message will be received by millions, this forms of journalism is how we keep up to date with what 's going on in the world quickly. An example of this is Osama bin Laden 's death, one of the biggest news in 2011, were reported by a local one day before Obama announced this news to the world . Twitter is also a key player of the social media, there are loads of news stories went on twitter before they do on mainstream