Citizen Journalism

Citizen journalism is members of the public playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information. This type of journalism is becoming so much more popular because it is so easy to get started. You can look anywhere on the Internet to find a site where you can start your own blog. With all this ability to get started, that is the reason citizen journalism is becoming so popular. In the section of introducing citizen journalism there is a sentence that supports this thinking, "Low barriers to entry provided by the Internet and computer networking technologies, as well as new genres, such as blogs, offer a new media landscape for twenty-first century journalists." Not only are these ways to be a citizen journalist, but also there are Web sites that allow this. An example is Wikipedia. Wikipedia is one of the best things ever. Anyone in the world, can write anything they want about any subject. This can be a good thing or a bad thing. If people take it seriously then you can get some of the best information, but people can also just put in anything they want, and it doesn't have to be factual. I feel that if it taken seriously, then citizen journalism is a great thing that can help many people.