News stories... ?
Think about the term 'citizen journalism'... ?
and UGC (user generated content)... ?
The impact and development/growth of 'citizen' journalism has influenced news articles and the way audiences look upon certain ideologies in terms of society. The term "citizen journalist" is to represent the fact that anyone can be a journalist these days due to the development of technology. This is because of the increase and normality of everyone owning smartphones and therefore are able to take high quality pictures and videos as well as being able to upload them onto social networking sites such as; Facebook and/or Twitter; instantly.
The impact/influence in this has caused everyone to take videos of events taking place therefore meaning that anyone is able to post stories due to the development of the internet.
This also links in with the recent acknowledgement of UGC (user generated content) as anyone is able to post up information or news stories online and share/have their own personal say.
The news agenda (choice of news stories that make up the news)... ?
The news agenda (which is the choice or quality of news stories that make up news) is regulated by professionals whos job it is to write and research articles for people to read. We are in the era of user generated content (UGC) where the old divide between institution and audience is being eroded. Now anybody is able to choose an article to write about; and due to social networking websites such as Facebook and
Twitter, you are able to share them, write/post them and give your opinions based on them and well as receive other peoples opinions on the news story.
The role of professionals in the news... ?
Due to the old divide between institution and audiences being eroded the role of professionals in the news is looked upon as less important as they once were as anyone is able to write articles due to 'citizen journalism' and UGC (user generated content) such as writing posts on Facebook or Twitter.
The role of professionals of course affects the quality of articles as they this is there livelihood whereas 'citizen journalists' are amateur journalists and writers and therefore the quality of the news story may not be of as high of a standard than a proper news article for a paper such as the sun.
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