. What is Citizen Journalism and why did it emerge?
the concept of citizenship journalism is based on normal citizens who all play an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analysing, and spread news and information. pretty much everyone can now be a citizen journalist meaning ordinary people can be a news reporter and send out information using technology. With the growth of social media sites, blogs etc people from all around the world have started to report news and send out information. And this has increased the growth of citizenship journalism. Before the internet, only professional journalists had access to the technology to publish their work so people from all around the world can see and be informed. if an average citizen wanted to publish a news report or some sort of information they would have to write a letter to the editor or mail them.
How has the digital age impacted traditional journalism?
the internet has not only changed the methods and purpose of journalism but also peoples perceptions of news media. Firstly the rise of of the blogger and user based journalism has become immensely popular among both new and old media companies a change that has impacted traditional journalism. not only has digital age made information easier, faster and more efficient. Social media platforms like blogs, micro-blogging websites like Twitter and social networks like Facebook, MySpace, and Reditt etc have shaped the new media revolution. The development of user-friendly, low cost or free online content management tools like Blogger, BlogSpot, WordPress, Tumblr etc have helped make it a lot easier to deliver information and access information too. The main way digital age has impacted traditional journalism is the fact that from sending letters to editors and or instead of contacting a big company for your news to be published you can just send out information using the latest technology. This impact has some pros and cons.
What benefits does Citizen Journalism offer the world?
citizenship journalism offers quite a few benefits such as: 1) Easy to represent 2) Easy to express society problems 3) Express the most important developments and information of a individual 4) information to be published in the areas of entertainment, sports, jobs, health and beauty, politics, business, technology, press release, market research etc.. 5) your voice to the world.