Media
Though many newspapers, serious journalists and editors claimed in past few years that citizen journalism is equal to citizen surgery and that citizen news are not trustworthy and reliable – they are denied on daily bases. Not only that citizen journalists proved their value and covered news unreachable to best of the best reporters and
Being celebrity today isn’t an easy job. Besides doing what they’re already doing, looking great and staying present – interesting for media modern superstars have even harder task. They have to create and maintain their online profiles and image. Pioneers in this area had an advantage but it required more work and effort. Now with
Professional journalists and traditional, mainstream media, always point out that their work is ethical and their information are always real, true, checked and valid. Is that really so? And if it is, why do they always have next to say that citizen journalism isn’t? If readers and users had time for checking I’m sure they
Can you imagine citizen journalism 100 years ago? How would it look and function? I’m pretty sure that 100 years ago there was some kind of citizen journalism. Same way traditional and professional journalism existed and reported news, citizens were doing their part. But how? Without developed technology and social media, Internet and mobile phones.
Since we still live in the world of democracy on hold, where there are still countries without free press and media, where articles about anything that involves politics get censorship, where journalists disappear from the face of the earth as a ghosts and where talking or just thinking against politics and government are considered as
