“…Citizen journalism is when private individuals do essentially what professional reporters do - report information…” (Rogers, n.d.) And “…The Internet gave average people the ability to transmit information globally…” (Rogers, n.d.). From these quotes we know that as the development of Internet technology, nowadays everyone could be a journalist to publish what happen around us and around the world.
According to “…New media technology, such as social networking and media-sharing websites, in addition to the increasing prevalence of cellular phones, have made citizen journalism more accessible to people worldwide…” (Citizen Journalism, n.d.). We know that citizens can often report breaking news more quickly than professional media reporters.
Such as “…two predominant groups of youth published information, calls to action, documentation of policy brutality, and coordinated their planning and activities via Facebook and Twitter…” (Anemic Portrayal of, …show more content…
The post starts off with a brief intro by host John Schiumo, a nice fresh statement that goes…” (“The Call” interactive, 2012)
The third example is “…At 10:25 p.m. on May 1, 2011, Keith Urbahn, who happened to be the former chief of staff for Donald Rumsfeld but in this case was functioning as a citizen journalist, tweeted: “So I’m told by a reputable person…” (How citizen journalism, 2012)
The last example is “…Online petitions undoubtedly, though, do represent a fabulous means of exercising one’s civic voice and leverage a response from public officials. In this example, New York City restored most of the proposed cuts to its public library budget due...” (Petition power, 2012)
As those examples tells us citizen journalism is more and more popular for media audiences. This is the outcome of development of Internet technology and development of mobile phone technology.
Today, you can use your mobile phone to surf the internet while watch a TV programme, or watch a programme that was on TV last night on your smartphone while you are on the way to work and so on. There are too many changes in people’s