Citizen journalism

The term of citizen journalism is allowing those without professional journalism training to use the wide despersion of various digital tools and the global distribution of internet to make and distribute their own news. In fact, Citizen journalism give the big impact to the society, because it contains a lot of information about the news in our society and it is interesting . Citizen journalism has been effective communication tools for people to know about anything happened around them.

In the article that mentioned by BBC, the usefulness of the press goes much wider than merely investigating abuses or disseminating general news; it lies in holding governments to account—trying them in the court of public opinion.

Unfortunately however, media corporations that dominate nowadays appear to fail in fulfilling its role as the fourth estate, which is to act as a watchdog and guardian of the public interest. According to Dan Gillmor, corporate journalism now gravitates towards entertainment/lifestyle pieces and less serious journalism, which undermines the reputation of the traditional corporations. Thus, it is under such conditions that citizen journalism steps in to fills the gap and thrives.

In addition, citizen journalism has both the advantages and disadvantages. The advantages of citizen journalism is it provides relevant and quick information, on the other hand the disadvantages caused by citizen journalism are it may caused violence and infringe upon the law because of wrong posting.