Friday, October 16, 2009
We can be an editor, report and even a star.
The media has remarkably been changed by the digital revolution. I grew up in South Korea, a tech-savvy country. About two decade ago, the internet network was widely spread all over our country.
Most adults my age were fascinated by the“iloveschool”, website to meet old friends from the elementary school to college. This was the one of the most popular website in our country. This website is very similar with the American social network, "Facebook". After, Oh Yeon Ho created “OhmyNews"in 2000 and we also enjoyed the new style, fresh, unfiltered and unbiased news by the freelncer contributors and citizens like us. I am so glad to know that "OhmyNews" is the foremost international citizen journalism site by our lecture.
Wikipedia explains the definition of the “Citizen Journliam”
"Citizen journalism (also known as "public", "participatory", "democratic"
or "street journalism") is the concept of members of the public "playing an
active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and
disseminating news and information," according to the seminal 2003
report We Media: How Audiences are Shaping the Future of News
and Information."
Now we should participate in this new movement, if we do we can be an editor, reporter and even a star through the website. We savor the new media, the most candid, fresh and accurate news from everywhere and everybody, like ordinary citizens.
