Citizen Journalism Project: Reflective Analysis: Citizen Journalism

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I am a student of PR, advertising and media. I really enjoyed being a student of Media Events and News Cultures module this year. I have had a good grasp of knowledge in journalism and media as well as how its aspects connect with public relations studies. I have learned about media events, news events, churnalism, digital story telling, citizen journalism, role of photography in journalism and so on. However, the topics that interested me the most were citizen journalism and content curation. I think it perfectly shows how journalism profession roles have changed with the high technology development in 21st century. In this essay, I am going to critically reflect on issues from the …show more content…

The fact that citizen journalism is an amateur work done by an eyewitness of an event or someone who takes it as a hobby, brings some issues and disadvantages to this discipline. Firstly, common issue is with its inaccuracy. Social media users tend to share and spread messages before making sure if such information is correct and make it go viral. Secondly, due to the lack of editorial controls, citizen journalism, may be troubling for its creators, as very often they are not aware of the legal actions that may be taken against them, after sharing specific images and texts. “Citizen journalists may be not aware of questions of privacy or what legal restrictions there may be.” (Cooper, 2015, p.3) It is also worth mentioning that apart from legal actions that citizen journalists can face, there is also a risk of putting themselves in a major danger, trying to get the footage from violent protests, terror attacks and so on. There are also examples of several arrests while reporting demonstrations or riots as photographers put themselves in the sight of …show more content…

It was a very good experience of gaining knowledge in a more interactive way, where I could practice on Storify website what I have already learnt. I have also enjoyed the fact that Storify gives ability to be creative. I have felt like it is me who decides how my story looks like, what will be the style of writing or what I will include. As the issue of citizen journalism is that it needs essential verifying news accuracy, I found interesting curating the content about citizen journalism itself. I do believe, that there many aspects of this issue that I would need to improve my knowledge of, however, I am happy with what I have achieved so far and therefore I am inspired and willing to explore more in this

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