1. 2010 Moscow
bombing
•The images of the bomb
blast were provided by
citizens equipped with cell
phones
participation of victims in
reporting the news gave
divergent perspective of
the story
2. Form of citizen media
“…members of public collecting, reporting, analyzing
and disseminating news and information..”
User generated content
3. Audience at the receiving end report
Use technology and internet
Independent citizen journalists
Semi independent journalist
4. Regular journalism: pamphlets and
brochures
Public journalism/ civic journalism
Abraham zapondi: first citizen journalist
5. Online citizen journalism with the advent of
web2.0
Gained Prominence during crisis
A Citizen Journalism Identity Emerges From
London Bombings
The You decide( online) project and the 2007
Australian Federal
6. Began with web journalism
Hindi-language Channel 7, 24x7 English-
language channel CNN-IBN
Merinews.com, instablogs.com
7. Chennai
•Chennai one among top
ten cities having most
number of Internet users
(2010 report)
• Chennai ranks the third
among the metros in
terms of mobile internet
usage ( survey by
Techno zone)
• Dinakaran ( Tamil
newspaper) : invites
people to contribute
news
9. To study online habits among the college
students in Chennai
To find out the understanding of citizen
journalism among the students
To find out the involvement of the students as
citizen journalists
10. Quantitative method
Primary data from students in the Chennai
colleges
Non probability sampling used
Convenient sampling – selected 5 colleges
11. 20 students in each college and at least 5
teachers in each college
Survey method was used to collect data.
Questionnaire was developed
Data analysed – statistically using SPSS
12. Sample size – 65
Students age - 17 to 30 and teachers – above 30
to 56
Male – 74% and Female – 26%
Students – 85% and Teachers- 15%
15. Have you seen or read any citizen
journalist news.
percent
yes
15%
no
85%
Respondents were exposed to citizen journalist news in newspaper and
television channels
17. ONLINE NEWS CITIZEN JOURNALISM NEWS
browsing browsing
yes
no 12%
37%
yes
63% no
88%
18. Reported or uploaded any news in websites
upload or report
yes
18%
Among 69 % of the respondents
who
browse online news only 18 %
were found to be reporting or
uploading news or events
no
82%
19. Age vs. Social media habits
Chart Title
• Majority of respondents No yes
from all age groups used face
book or twitter 1
Above 40
2
• Students who were below
20 years had the highest
3
percentage of using the social 21 - 40
media websites 10
6
<20
43
20. Age Vs citizen journalism websites knowledge
• Only 20 % of the students ( <20 above 40 yrs
years) who were aware of the
citizen journalism had the idea
bout citizen journalism websites
21 - 40 yrs no
• The percentage of respondents in yes
the other age groups were found
to be minimum
< 20 yrs
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
21. Age Vs Citizen journalism websites browsing habits
• Only 11 % of the students ( <20 years)
> 40 years
who had knowledge about websites
used it
21 - 40 years no
yes
• 2% of the respondents ( >40 years))
who were aware of the websites did
not use the sites at all
< 20 years
0 10 20 30 40 50
22. Sex Vs Social media habits
• 65% of the total male respondents
used face book or twitter
female
• only 20% of the female respondents
used the social media habits
no
yes
male
0 10 20 30 40 50
23. Sex Vs citizen journalism website knowledge
•Among the total respondents only
female
20% of male and 3% of females had
knowledge about websites
no
yes
male
0 10 20 30 40
24. Sex VS citizen media browsing habits
• Only 11 .8% of the male and 1.5 % of
the female who already have female
knowledge about the websites
, browse
no
yes
male
0 5 10 15 20
25. Preference to be a
citizen journalist
preference
•65 % of the students were no
interested to be a citizen 35%
journalist if they are
given a chance
yes
65%
26. 94% of total users use Email
85 % of the respondents use social media
websites
Majority ( 51%) of the respondents visit social
media websites every day
Age group below <20 years had highest usage
of social media websites
27. 77% of the respondents had the idea about
citizen journalism
Percentage of students below 20 years who
browsed the citizen journalism websites was
high
Age group <20 particularly males used citizen
journalism websites to upload news
Majority respondents preferred to be citizen
journalist