Impact of audience-generated content
The amount of information that we can access on any one subject is endless on the internet.
You can Google any subject, read blogs, listen to Podcasts and watch vlogs of the latest news without turning on a radio, TV or picking up a paper.
Media has evolved so much since the 1920s when newspapers were king.
Media has boomed with the changing technology.
Anyone can report and photograph news worthy situations.
It is a case of being in the right place at the right time with the right equipment. Simply point your mobile phone and click record.
It makes perfect sense. Every day people are the ones caught up in these situations.
They are the survivors who are caught in the perfect position to report on the story.
They are simply making the best of a sometimes very bad situation.
We all want the most up to date information when a major story breaks.
TV crews and journalists can take some reaching these areas and can only report from the outside.
Media organisations are creating divisions called ‘user generated content desks’ to monitor and filter the over whelming supply of information that people email, or text in.
This development depicts what is happening worldwide. We are all reporters. Technology is taking us in this direction.
This video looks at Citizen Journalism. (Video taken from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU5LonkXbCE)
