With all of the tweeting, blogging, posting and sharing going on in our society today it comes as no surprise that social networking seems to be taking over, in more ways than one. Although having the availability of technology at our fingertips is a definite benefit to everyday life, the overall impact is less than desirable. In the world of professional journalism specifically, it seems that social media and technology have stolen the journalism thunder within the last several years. The Oxford English Dictionary defines journalism as “The activity or profession of writing for newspapers or magazines or of broadcasting news on radio or television” (Definition of Journalism in English). Although journalism is still a prestigious career, it is becoming lesser every time a “citizen journalist” tweets or posts about the happenings of the world before the professionals even have a chance. A citizen journalist is anyone who collects and analyzes information and news using the internet, and more specifically, social media. If this is true many people could be technically considered citizen journalists and not even know it (DeMers). Because the use of smart phones, tablets, and laptops are becoming incredibly common, it is literally with the swipe of a finger that many of us can be on the internet seeing first-hand what is going on in our world at that exact moment. Whether or not the news received on social networking sites is quality information remains to be seen in many cases, however, quality or not, social media is instant gratification. Journalists have to compete with social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook especially with younger generations (Cormack). Competing with a citizen journalist is not in the...
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...upport and more information, so did these journalists. Rowena Cormack, for Social Media Frontiers, stated “The changing consumer perception of news and the desire for real-time updates has encouraged journalists to step into their roles in situations like this, live-tweeting from the scene and updating readers with vital information on the events” (Cormack). Although social media may seem in many cases to take the cake for up to date news in a time of need, journalists and citizen journalists alike can come together for the betterment of the people. After all, the news is for the people to begin with. Social media is far from concluding their expansion; however, that does not in any way mean that the future for journalists’ is ending. As social media continues to develop new ways to communicate with people around the world, so will print media journalists.
New technology has fuelled the expansion with the growth of phone apps, social media formats, smartphones able to capture video and upload instantly onto the web. The public is now recording, documenting, sharing and viewing events as they happen, often before professional journalist or reporters. Technology allows people to view major events in real time anywhere in the world, creating a ‘global village’ in which everyone is connected (McLuhan 1964; cited in Giddens 2013). However, the mass medias of television, radio and newspapers both in print and online, continue to be the mediums the public accesses the news and events on a local, national and international
This shows that the role of journalism is to serve the citizens. Yet, the public are in between mass media and social media. Citizens could also view professional journalism, non-professional journalism and Facebook as a way of seeing the on-going
Evidence from multiple studies suggests social media is taking place of the 24-hour news cycle in a variety of ways. According to Harrington and McNair, much news is broken by social media, and journalists compete in a cycle of news and politics that has been dramatically influenced and sped up by 24-hour news channels. John Katz, a writer for Rolling Stone magazine, reframed ‘the news’ as a contestable social and political resource that could be found across a wide range of cultural outputs (Harrington & McNair, 2012). Furthermore, journalists are no longer serve as typical ...
Furthermore, it is evident that every journalist has a different concept of danger and what is hazardous to one person may not be considered hazardous to another. The individual desire to record human tragedy also differs from person to person (9). According to Gabe Mythen, the attraction of citizen journalist to media internet sites is that, “For technophiles, a substantial increase in peer-to-peer interactions has eroded gate-keeping hierarchies as public-based social news sites that set their own topics and agendas. Thus, one of the vaunted distinctions drawn between citizen journalism and professional journalism is that ‘no editor comes between the author and the reader” (Mythen,
Social Media is fast and endless, some other Apps like Instagram, Youtube, Tumblr, and Reddit ,again this is just a short list of where people are deciding to get their news stories from. “News plays a varying role across the social networking sites studied.Two-thirds of Facebook users (66%) get news on the site, nearly six-in-ten Twitter users (59%) get news on Twitter, and seven-in-ten Reddit users get news on that platform. On Tumblr, the figure sits at 31%, while for the other five social networking sites it is true of only about one-fifth or less of their user bases”(Pew
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Today, we read less and less one “newspaper”. Today news organizations like the New York Times must deal with the continuous flow of information generated by the Internet and social networks. Therefore, journalists must learn to do their jobs on the Internet, which means being on the lookout for new ways to get informed and developing new practices and skills in order to feed this flow of information and venturing into new fields of inquiry. That’s the future of the media. And we need good core news produced by these professionals because the quality of the information provided by the media matters for political participation, and our democracy needs a well-informed
Unfortunately, even experienced reporters can't always be there at the crucial time when something unexpected happens. That's when citizen journalists come into play. Ordinary people can help alert the media to spontaneous events, along with providing information and visual documentation. Social media assists in thi...
This article focuses on research that reveals the de-professionalization and democratization of traditional journalism. The article explores the consequences of both the relation between traditional journalism and citizen journalism. The author argues that the emergence of citizen journalism is a consequence of the current factors effecting the changes in traditional journalism. The lines between professional journalism content and amateur journalism content have become blurred. The author explains how these factors have shown to affect the field of journalism in areas of employment, media technologies, shifting patterns of media use, and media consumption.
He touches on how journalists can seem to reach more people through Twitter and social media
In recent years, a shifting media paradigm and the emergence of citizen journalism and alternative media has resulted in a greater plurality of media voices and media properties offering alternative perspectives and viewpoints. Thanks to changes in technology, as well as changes in the nature of mainstream media, there has been both a growth in the demand for alternative media and citizen journalism, as well as increased opportunities for independent media organizations and individuals to make contributions in this space. The question of whether these alternative news organizations and citizen journalists can begin to pick up the slack left by an increasingly homogenous and corporatized mass media is contentious and sparks passionate debate
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Social media is a internet-based tools that promote collaboration and information sharing. Social media can be used in academic settings to promote student engagement and facilitate better student learning. The students can use the social media to find any information because can save time and faster to access information. The students also can improve their knowledge and language level when using the social media in students daily routine. Social media can promote community development through collaboration and information sharing. When use the social media it can provide opportunities for individual expression as well as interactions with other users. Current research has indicated that using social media as an educational tool can lead to increased student engagement. Social media can give more experience in daily life and give more knowledge
Nowadays people can access immense amount of readily available information. With Instagram, I can get up to minute news without confining myself to the mainstream media.as long have I have internet connection, I don’t have to switch on the TV, or computer, or buy newspapers; one can get breaking news anywhere anytime through videos and