What is Citizen Journalism?
Citizen Journalism is the act of citizens playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information. Local news written by residents of a community that had previously escaped notice of professionals is an example of citizen journalism. One good example of Citizen Journalism is STOMP.
In the lesson we have discussed whether STOMP is effective in Singapore context. Some think it is effective while some think it is not. For me i feel that STOMP is a good place for me to know what is happening in Singapore.
4th Reflections1)Which criteria did you use to evaluate Stomp.com? Why did you choose this criteria? What lessons have you learnt from this activity?I will choose coverage and purpose. STOMP allows people to post about what they saw or they are happy/unhappy with certain incident. The content is rather interesting as i can see the STOMPER's point of view and the way they write. Other people would also comment on the STOMPER post and we can see the difference in the way they look. Sometime the comments would make me laugh. I think that STOMP is effective because of its coverage as there are alot of interesting article written by people and you can see the different type of people would have different way of thinking.
2)How do you feel about sharing your views via Wiki?I don't think that sharing our view in wiki would work because people may tend to edit your comment and it defeats the purpose of sharing of our view.
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