The Social Web has empowered people to express themselves using blogs, videos on Youtube, pictures on Flickr, etc.. Increasingly the well-known pictures of significant events around the world, such as the bombings in London on 7 July 2005, are coming from citizens rather than professional photographers.

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Citizen Journalism

2. • The Social Web has empowered people to express themselves using blogs, videos
on Youtube, pictures on Flickr, etc.
• It has become very easy for an individual to have his/her own video channel, online
radio show, blog, book published, etc for free/very little cost.
• Social Media is causing big changes in the media and journalism industry.
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3. The astounding photo below- taken from a river ferry by Janis Krums is one of the
earliest photo taken with a iPhone and uploaded to Twitter.
This photo provided the world instant, realtime and accurate picturization of the crash.
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4. Citizen journalism refers to everyday people playing a role in contributing, collecting,
reporting, publishing news & information.
People can use Web 2.0 tools which has the power of global distribution to have their
voice heard.
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5. Everyday blogs, comments, video channels, wikis, etc all aggregate to the trend of
citizen journalism.
The internet with all the Web 2.0 publishing tools complemented and supplemented by
real time connection, communication & collaboration are changing the way media is
consumed and produced.
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6. Citizen journalism sites like Groundreport rely only on citizens for the news published.
GroundReport is a world news platform where reporters can submit articles, photos or
videos of news events on politics, business, technology, sports and the arts.
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7. iReport is the way for people to report the news. iReporters helps to shape the story
that CNN covers everyday.
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8. • Collaborative & contributory media sites allow users to submit, vote, discuss, and
collaborate on user stories.
• The most popular stories bubble to the top.
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9. • In all the above cases - people present on the ground - uploaded live pictures/videos
to the social web.
• Once on the social web - these news bits spread with accelerated velocity.
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Such citizen journalism is in some cases happening almost
accidentally. Most people are just sending this information off to
their friends. The main thing to take from sites like Twitter and
Facebook is that they are informal modes of news dissemination.
Susan Jacobson
Assitant professor at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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10. A picture taken moments after a bomb exploded on a number 30 bus in London's
Tavistock Square on 7 July 2005 has won the first citizen journalism award.
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11. In the next hundred years, information won't be just pushed out to
people. It will be shared among the millions of connections people
have.
Mark Zuckerberg
CEO, Facebook
Increasingly the well-known pictures of significant events around the world, such as
the bombings in London on 7 July 2005, are coming from citizens rather than
professional photographers.
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