Sunday, 6 October 2013

UGC & Citizen Journalism...

What impact are these changes having on:
Citizen and Journalism have an impact on News stories as people are creating their own footage on their mobile phones, cameras etc (UGC) which is broadcasted onto the internet such as social networking sites 'Youtube', 'Facebook'. This allows a large audience to view the videos posted online before an actual News channel broadcasts it, it also allows the audience to see the news footage from an actual persons point of view as they were there at the time of the event. For an example of a natural disaster like the tsunami was unexpected, therefore any citizen and journalist would have recording footage on their phones or cameras to allow the audience around the world to show them what's going on and have witnessed the event, whereas the News would take professional footage of the event which doesn't really show the actual story to the event as it has been professionally recorded for News viewers to see.
Moreover the News agenda...
The role of professionals in news have been impacted in the changes of citizen and journalism...

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