The growth of the media and digital communication has increased significantly in the last few years. Correspondingly the audience responds to share and object to the information being delivered to them developed.
Citizen journalism has become necessary to the media as well as to the public. The idea behind citizen journalism is that people without professional journalism training can use the tools of modern technology and the global distribution of the Internet to create news. Today the media opened a new platform to the public using the web to play an active role in the process of collecting, reporting and analysing news and information.
The book We the Media by Dan Gillmor discuses citizen journalism, where it's started and why. One of the main reasons that Gillmor exposes to why it's started is that "freedom of the press limited to those who own one" (A.j. Liebling).
The citizen journalism phenomena is so powerful that even in controlled media world of News Chains it's beating away through censorship, breaking taboos and offering a pressure valve for social tensions.(to see more in that issue go to: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/06/26/1962255.htm). "If you don't agree with the news go and make your own news" Wes –"Scoop" Nisker
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Dgfufx9H1BcC
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Yes, citizen journalism also shows how much the internet has affected and changed our world. Who would of thought that years later the number one technology for communication would be the internet!?
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