The Globalization of Citizen Journalism on Internet and in Traditional News

The globalization of Citizen Journalism on Internet and in Traditional news has been a research topic over the years by numerous scholars world over. Technologies and work practices are also changing rapidly, making it difficult to discern any sense of a consolidation of practices since the development of the World Wide Web, its colonisation by commercial news providers and the ballooning of online usage in the mid1990s. Advocates of citizen journalism hail it as an opportunity to improve journalism, making it more transparent and democratic as the audience can check the facts presented and easily correct or add to the original article. On citizen journalism sites such as Spot. us or Broowaha.com readers can also decide which stories will be investigated and where they will be placed on the site. During the 2008 U.S. presidential election campaign, a citizen journalism TV channel called Current TV partnered with Twitter during the candidates‘ debates so that viewers could tweet their comments, which were shown live on screen Andrew, (2007). Role hitherto played exclusively by the traditional media are now performed by citizen journalism through the virtual community. Citizen journalism embraces all the social media platforms such as Face Book, YouTube, Twitter, MySpace and the Blogosphere. Keyword: Globalization, Citizen Journalism, Internet and Traditional