Dear classmates,
We are going to talk about social/mobile media and citizen journalism in the next class. Please think about these questions and leave your answers! Thank you!
1.Have you seen any example of citizen journalism before? which one impressed you most?
2.In your opinion, what advantages and disadvantages does citizen journalism have comparing with traditional journalism?
3.Do you think citizen journalism has positive impact on the society?
1.Yup. Texting on Weibo and some video clips from Wechat or snapchat. Definitely the short video clips impressed me more.
ReplyDelete2. Instantaneity. And rather than from one aspect(news agency), you can view the case from many different aspects.
3. I think so for it boost the transparency of information. But it also brings some problems like due to people usually choose what they want to see, what make themselves gratified, filtering the information is the job people must do now, becuz all things online may be not always the truth.
1.Yes. The September 11 attacks in America, the demolition in Yizhuang of 2011, the Tianjin explosion on August 12 in 2015, which were all reported by citizen on social media like weibo or twitter, made great impressions on my mind.
ReplyDelete2. Compared with traditional journalism, citizen journalism can publish the message at the first time. Most of the news come from people on the spot with first-hand photos or videos. However, the credibility and reality need to be confirmed, and the citizen journalism may be fragmented and detailed.
3.In my opinion, the citizen journalism may have some positive impacts on the society to some extent. It brings people to an era where everyone can be a journalist and it encourages people to express opinions and emotion. Meanwhile, the citizen journalism generates more challenges to professional journalists.
1. Yes. Nowadays more and more people like to post texts, photos and videos to present some big events that happen around them.
ReplyDelete2. Compared with traditional journalism, citizen journalism can post the information instantly when the events happen, and we can see the events from the perspectives of citizens, which may be totally different from what the official agencies say. However, some messages have not been verified before posted, so the credibility of citizen journalism is not so high as that of traditional journalism.
3. To some extent, it does. Citizen journalism offers us a chance to see things from different perspectives and encourages more ordinary people to express their own opinions.