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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
9:29 PM

INTERNET AND JOURNALISM

It used to be that when I think of news, media, I think of printed media (eg. news, magazines) and broadcast media (tv, radio).
It used to be that when I think of journalism, I think of professional writers, photographers, and news reporters.

Things are changing now.

Now, anyone that has access information and can disseminate information IS a journalist. Technologies we have today have aided that. With a cellphone, one can take a photo/video about virtually anything, anywhere at anytime, upload it onto the internet, and voila! Instant news flash to thousands of people globally. Such is termed as "citizen journalism".

This topic on citizen journalism is rather closely linked to earlier chapter on "Internet and Politics". It is a widely known fact that the media can serve as a political watchdog. Now, in recent years, this role has become stronger due to the rise of citizen journalism. One documentary I came across recently is the Sky of Lies by Nik Gowing. Here's the full documentary:







The internet has really empowered the people and the extent of it is best expressed in this quote (from the video):

"We can now tell the ruling government, big corporations, businesses, NGOs that we are no longer ignorant. They can no longer be arrogant because we have the power of the crowd through social media."

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