Sunday, March 23, 2008

The Future of Social Media?

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Before actually reading about it, I have never heard of citizen journalism or anything about it. When you even think about it, what does "citizen journalism" even mean? It is basically an ordinary person tells you what happened through his/her own perspective. Below is a very interesting video, though kind of long, that explained everything i need to know about citizen journalism.



Although the video is very interesting, i do not agree with the idea, nor do i agree with the idea presented by this video called EPIC 2014. The concept of the EPIC 2014 video provided an insight on the evolution of our world in media and the internet. It was very scary but true. Nowadays, the majority of people are relying on the media, a.k.a. other people, for information that they consider accurate and truthful. There is no problem with this because these are the people who are actually going out there and doing the work to find the information required, analyze it and report it to the people. This is done everyday, 24/7. People watch the news or browse the various sites available to catch up on the most recent news.

However, when it comes to news being reported through an altered perspective such as in a blog or social news site, the quality of the information changes. The validity of the story comes to questions because how can you trust an ordinary person telling you the latest about a recent event through his view in a blog or social networking site. I understand that journalism is a profession and that there are experts out there, but doing something like this on a more social level poses consequences for the future of media and I do not believe that it will work.

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