what is the contribution of a citizen journalism?
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What are the similarities and differences between citizen journalism and social journalism? Citizen journalism is reporting sourced, researched and written by amateurs. ... Social journalism takes professional journalism and mixes it up with citizen journalism, presenting it on the same site or publication.
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Journalism is in a bit of a pickle. Whether it’s the continued closure of newsrooms, reports that media freedom is currently at its lowest point for a decade, or the continued assertion from certain quarters that journalists are “the enemy of the people”, it’s a tricky time for publishers to do their job – on all fronts.
The rise of participatory journalism is perhaps not therefore especially surprising: whether it’s to plug a gap left by newsroom closures, share information about subjects which do not get sufficient coverage, or just to provide an alternative voice to the mainstream, we are now at a point where public contributions to the news landscape are a normal part of journalism.
But, to quote wise Uncle Ben, “with great power comes great responsibility” so how does this new breed of citizen journalists fit into the matrix?
First up: What is citizen journalism?
Very basically, it is as Tony Rogers writes, “private individuals, who are normally the consumers of journalism, generating their own news content.”
The concept is, therefore, a straightforward one: those providing information, insight, and occasionally analysis are the ones who have historically been those consuming, not creating content. They are perhaps best thought of as incidental reporters: sharing snapshots rather than providing context.
Of course, while the association with citizen journalism may be with those reporting from war zones, or places in turmoil through fuzzy video links or Twitter posts, the category includes more than that.
Citizen journalism is participatory, at that participation might be evident through collaboration as well as through direct contribution. By this definition user-generated content, like the Facebook group reporting delays on Uppsala’s train network at Upsala Nya Tidning (NTM), counts.
How about journalism created by non-journalists with the help of journalists? Well, in the case of On Our Radar, absolutely. There, the purpose is to empower unheard communities by training those communities to tell their own stories. Libby Powell had this to say when we spoke to her last year:
“There’s absolutely no doubt that a huge strata of public information is best told by professionals and by people with power. The press pass is a crucial pillar of democracy, but there is a big chunk of public information which is around human stories, which are designed to help people understand one another and hold a mirror up to public life. These are the stories which we feel are best told by those most affected by the issues.
As ever, it’s about balance. And, with the onset of social media, that balance has shifted.
People + social media = new communication
“Journalists don’t even decide what the biggest story of the day is anymore, rather, society does, and the news that goes viral is often produced by social media users themselves.” Ellie Mason
It’s no coincidence that the academic world started talking earnestly about citizen journalism in the mid-2000s. Then the world of blogging was emerging, Facebook was beginning, Twitter offered great promise. The digitisation of newspapers was in progress. Things were changing.
Once given the reins of this new mode of communication, academic pontification became reality: people changed the way they shared information. Moreover, the power shifted as the reading public’s voice suddenly became amplified. The newspaper as go-between suddenly seemed a bit, well, 1990.
Freely available news (and yes, ‘freely’ in both in terms of monetary cost and ease of procurement) broke the status quo: news became instantly shareable across timezones and the format deconstructed. Where before editors selected those front-page stories, readers consuming articles on Facebook or Twitter didn’t necessarily have any notion of whether that article sat above the fold or not.
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