Citizen Journalism

What is citizen journalism
Citizen Journalism is when public citizens play the role of a journalist collecting, reporting and analyzing news and information. Citizens are able to capture and report news with the use of mobile phone still images, short video clips and instant blogging on an event.

What vision of the future did the Googlezon video present
The video presented plans of the future that Google will merge together with Amazon to become GoogleZon. The company come together and battle against Microsoft and its news companies over the 2010 News War. GoogleZon will win the battle and create a company called EPIC (Evolving Personalised Information Construct) which will basically offer you infromation and news on the things you are interested about.


What could be the avantages/disadvantages for us as consumers
The advantages of this are that we are constantly given information and news about things that we are interested about, but the problem is who is choosing what we are given? Computers are supposidly made to filter information and present it to us about our interests that are taken and found from social networking sites. This allows EPIC to know all our personal details, what we have been doing, what we look like, who were friends with and our interests. This is almost an invasion of our privacy by computers. An advantage of EPIC is that we would have a completely personalised facility delivered straight to us without any hassel.


What are issues for newspapers and journalist
Journalists will loose jobs as computers are doing all the work for them, newspapers sales will decrease and eventually newspapers as a whole might become 'exstinct'.