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The citizen journalism project “Friends of Januária” began in September and October 2011. Conceived by journalists Amanda Rossi and Jamila Venturini, the project received support from various...
In this session, two individuals share their perspectives on civic media with a global audience. Mohamed Nanabhay, head of New Media at the AlJazeera Network, helped unpack the North African...
Datran Media plans to extend the Allvoices crowd-sourcing platform into other categories beyond news, and will be integrating its social distribution technology into the site’s content. Datran will...
Natural disasters and wars bring people together in unanticipated ways, as they use the tools and technologies easily at hand to help. From crisis response to situational awareness, free or low...
Moving forward, a technical arms race is already shaping up between the key social media players who want to facilitate the free-flow of information and entrenched political players who...
Social media and aggregate text messaging can, in a very real sense, be construed as a 'cultural consciousness,' and our goal is to show how you can take advantage of that for reasons...
In what has been one of the darkest days for the UK and its citizens, social media and crowdosurcing have mobilised people in a singular display of compassion and humanity. It proved to be a...
The Guardian's over-arching commitment to an open and collaborative newsroom makes it a natural home for the citizens agenda. The citizens agenda is a simple concept, and their approach...
According to media relations expert, Priya Ramesh, social media will continue to empower citizen journalism, as anyone with a smartphone device can instantaneously create and share news in real...
One of the top ten media apps for 2011 is Bambuser. Bambuser has actually become a tool for citizen journalism, and Egyptian activists have been using the service to broadcast Tahrir Square...
The very nature of social media’s open communication and crowdsourced information provides a powerful tool for public safety agencies. Take, for instance, the Twitter user who unknowingly tweeted...
This paper summarizes recent discussions about Citizen journalism: its various forms and coming of age; its role in international news; the opportunities for a more democratic practice of...
Citizen journalists are providing a valuable service to their communities. They are relentlessly searching for the truth by preserving liberty and democracy. They are doing all of this without...
Digital media users, especially in the social media realm, value variety in news sourcing, as well as transparency. This search for more crowd-sourced news is putting pressure on regional...
The YouTube video calling for the world to #UniteForSyria features both ordinary citizens and celebrities from around the world.
The online world is always“turned on”and always“connected”and delivers results,for example: The US 2008 presidential campaign generated tens of millions in contributors supporting...
Matt DeRienzo, Connecticut Group Editor for Journal Register Co., said he thinks open journalism is not only a general trend for the media industry but also an essential one for newspapers to...
Citizen relay aims to capture the alternative stories of the torch relay, turning the camera away from the flame and back onto the crowds and communities that it passes through. This is not about...
Mr. Lekan Otufodunrin said the New Media is an interactive forms of communication that use the Internet, including podcasts, RSS feeds, social networks, text messaging, blogs, wikis, virtual...
Writing on Salon, Barthel argues : Citizen journalism is doing more or less the exact same thing that traditional journalism has always done, except not as reliably or sustainably. Crowdsourced...
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