Thursday, October 30, 2008

Mirror, Mirror On the Web

Mirror Mirror on the web who is the most derided person of the year? The answer is "You" as Time's magazine honor was given to the people of technology with the time, energy and passion to make themselves more publicized. 

Your article has been very influential and i have to agree with the fact we are becoming more cherished into creating a progressive fantasy. It is now a wide known fact that we are using any form of medium in order to show the world who you are. I, who is also part of this technological craze have made me who i am today. Facebook, bebo, youtube, myspace etc.. have all contributed into the way i am represented to the world. People from around the world have an idea of who i am and comment things to what i say. This makes the communication interaction a lot closer. Your article also focused on the development of the camera in which i do agree have created a revolution in the modern notion of fame. It is true that most if not all have a dream of becoming famous however as you said that fantasy of fame is not new. 

You also also went into the idea of the evolution of the internet has both mirrored and shaped the way of self identity in which i have said earlier that it has already affected me. however i think that these development create a negative wave in who we interact, your profile on facebook and friends would become one of the most things in your life and you will become more and more dependent on it. Will one day this world would come to an end of social physical interaction and perform everything online? who knows...the future lies ahead of us

overall well based and informative article that has helped me better understanding of who we are today.

My Understanding of Citizen Journalism =]

In simple terms, citizen journalism is when a individual (private) does what a professional reporters do - report information. They are people that perform journalism without any journalistic training reporting the news to a wide audience. These information can be made and broadcasted in many forms such as a podcast editorial to a report about an inter-city meeting on a blog. These blogs may include text. pictures, audio and video. So basically its all about communicating information in a different way of some kind.

The other main feature of citizen journalism is that it can b found on the internet. With the emergence of the internet such as blogs, podcasts, streaming video and other web-related innovation has made citizen journalism possible for everyone. Before the internet people had to take form of independence in newspapers or newsletters, however technology has made it easy for basically anyone to create a blog or website, thus citizen journalism has become and important part of news reporting and getting the news to others.

Real journalist have proper journalism education are instructed to avoid plagiarism, knowing how to report a story properly and objectively and have an understand of journalistic ethics.

Whereas citizen journalist that don't have the proper training don't get the respect of those of journalist as they believe citizen journalism is not a legitimate field. However there are others that appreciate the new information that citizen journalism can provide.



Thursday, October 23, 2008

Shinji's C-Journalism BLOG =D

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