NDM News: Citizen journalism

Examples

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb1WywIpUtY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpGxagKOkv8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J8Feyr38Ss

Theory (audience reception etc.)

Shared Experience

Sense Of Group & Belonging

Authentic

Dominant Readings

Surveillance 

Benefits to institutions

Don't have to pay for any camera vans to produce footage for events, most footage on the news now comes from video phones. Also means that they give out a authentic representation to their audience.

Benefits to audience

They feel like they are at the event, allows them to see whats really going on without any edited, cut footage. News is also more accessible due to social media.

SHEP

Social:

Everyone can be a journalist

More variety of news

Able to receive news faster and efficiently

More of a democratic voice than any other time period.

Historical:

Changed the way we used to view news completely.

Jobs are being lost as institutions may not require high paid journalists or high quality footage.

News is more open and explicit due to the realness of citizen journalism.

Economical:

Jobs are being lost, not good for the economy.

Everyone is being watched,

Consider actions.

News institutions save money.

Politics:

With the amount of footage of Police Brutality many governments are at risk of riots and protests.

Government may not be trusted.

1) What is meant by the term ‘citizen journalist’?
It means that the audience are now the users, the audience are now able to create the news that we all see and allows for a real and shared experience of whats happening.

2) What was one of the first examples of news being generated by ‘ordinary people’?
The Beating Of Rodney King In 1992 & September 11th 2001

3) List some of the formats for participation that are now offered by news organisations.
Comment feeds online, thread posts etc

4) What is one of the main differences between professionally shot footage and that taken first-hand (UGC)?
Better quality images may be provided by professional footage, but professional footage is always edited and cut to make a hoax story in order to help news institutions, the difference is that first hand footage is raw and uncut.
5) What is a gatekeeper?
A filter of news that decides what is published to the audience.

6) How has the role of a gatekeeper changed?
We now have access to publish whatever content we have and form our own opinions on it for everyone to see, there is no filter now.

7) What is one of the primary concerns held by journalists over the rise of UGC?
That they may not be a job for them and that they're industry of work is being taken over by the audience, also that the internet has allowed for news to be free.
What impact is new/digital media having on the following:

News Stories:

Less quality news but allows for more realistic and straight up content, a lot less editing and fake stories.

The news agenda (the choice of stories that make up the news):

I guess now news industries must rely on whats become viral by citizen journalism, they may also resort to whats new in social media and distribute it across they're platforms. Before, they may have been the first to receive news, now its social media.

The role of professionals in news:

Professionals must ensure that the stories they write must be genuine and real as new and digital media has allowed for evil people to create very real looking false information, this has caused many professional jobs to be lost in the industry,