Citizen Journalism in Action
Friday, October 19th, 2007
Very SMITHy — a DIY viral video on how to produce your own ‘zine.
Wow. So many buzzwords. If I just started talking about SEO and Web 2.0 I could start my own Internet company! NASDAQ, here I come.
Actually, now that I think about it, I think I’d probably have trouble with that whole folding thing. Not so much with the small motor skills — it’s a genetic issue. Seriously, you should see my mom’s handwriting. (Hi, Mom.)
1stCitizen Journalism News Portal in India
Merinews is a common platform to share news and debate over views and opinions. It is India’s first news portal based on the concept of Citizen Journalism where every citizen can be a prospective reporter. It takes essentials from both media – the Internet and conventional journalism – and tries to dissolve the hierarchical line between the journalist and the reader. The Internet operates with a higher degree of heterogeneity than a lot of other mediums. People have heard such concepts earlier, even when its potential to sustain multiplicity of opinions for a long time is questioned. It may not be the ideal and perpetual technology of multiculturalism, but reality is that the believers of democracy and free speech advocates have taken to it much more effectively than their critics, who keep coming back with a vengeance in conventional spaces.
Be a citizen journalist >> http://www.merinews.com/citizen_greetings.jsp