More and more we get to know about the events not from professional journalists, print media but from blogs and citizen journalism portals (for example in Lithuania: ikrauk.15min.lt, vikipedija.lt; international: dailyHeights.com, Bluffton Today, international.ohmynews.com), which are rapidly expanding its activities. A new media era began, but yet it’s not clear, how it will end.
In a virtual environment anybody, despite their education, belief or age, can write, publish and spread the news. This is a citizen journalism, which offers opportunities for creativity, but also opportunities for untested, subjective information as well. So, what future can today's media journalists create? Maybe amateur journalists defame Lithuanian and other countries journalists? Or, conversely, encourage traditional journalists to improve their skills?
In a virtual environment anybody, despite their education, belief or age, can write, publish and spread the news. This is a citizen journalism, which offers opportunities for creativity, but also opportunities for untested, subjective information as well. So, what future can today's media journalists create? Maybe amateur journalists defame Lithuanian and other countries journalists? Or, conversely, encourage traditional journalists to improve their skills?
According to the 2003 report We Media: How Audiences are Shaping the Future of News and Information (authors Bowman and Willis),
" citizen journalism is the concept of members of the public playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information. The intent of this participation is to provide independent, reliable, accurate, wide-ranging and relevant information that a democracy requires ".
It is believed that amateur journalism is a specific attempt to find a new model because the old ones are starting to fall into disuse, but perhaps the Internet plays the main role in creating citizen journalism.
" The Internet messed up geographic distance, reduced the time value. And this changes the global reality, " said Romas Sakadolskis, the professor of Vilnius University, the Institute of Journalism.
Now we are able to communicate very quickly and no matter, where our talker is: in America, India or elsewhere.
More information about citizen journalism you can find in other posts!
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