HISTORIES OF CITIZEN JOURNALISM

---- Stuart Allan

Subject: MDIA 5003 Online & Mobile Media

Student name: Yingying Zhang

Time: 6pm-30/08/2011

Development of CJ• A Decisive Moment: 2004 South Asian Tsunami Disaster “citizen journalism became a prominent feature

on the

journalistic landscape”----Stuart Allan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF0dy5DjEmQ&feature=related

Crisis Event----Monica Lewinsky Scandal

•The Drudge Report was the first published an sexual affair between Monica Lewinsky and U.S. President Bill Clinton on January 17, 1998.

Matt Drudge

www.drudgereport.com

Crisis Event-- Monica Lewinsky Scandal

•Matt Drudge said---

“anyone can report anything”

“I’m a citizen first and a reporter second”

Matt Drudge

•Questions: If you know the “big news”, will you publish it online or keep a secret?

The Answer is …• Tami Silicio who took

the photo of military coffins back from Iraq.

• Her and her husband got fired 2 days after the newspaper published the photo. 

• ''It wasn't my intent to lose my job or become famous or anything,'' Silicio said.

Citizen Journalism

• The concept of CJ has been challenged.

• The Disruptions of Social Order.

• “ The battle for hearts and minds is being fought on the net”—Simon Rogers

Further Issues

• Is mainstream

media appear to

be losing control

of the Iraq war ?

Citizen Journalism V.S. Professional Journalism

• CJ has hurt newspapers, why should people pay

for news when they

can search online and

find hundreds of articles written from

those who they relate to – their

peers.

Citizen Journalism V.S. Professional Journalism

Competitors Cooperators

People got benefit

Thank you!