Citizen Journalism-My Tram Experience

In this video Matthew and I discuss the citizen journalism aspect of the controversial viral video; 'My Tram Experience', whether it has had a positive or negative impact, and how much this citizen journalism is a tool of democracy in the new age. Citizen journalism refers to the idea that in the 'We media' age, anyone can record and upload footage of anything, whereas in the past the traditional media powers (e.g newspapers, broadcasters) were in control of what we were exposed to and what was censored from the population's viewing.

Citizen Journalism

Citizen journalism is the idea of members of the public playing an active role in capturing, analysing and reporting information. New technology has allowed for this uprise in journalism where anyone can record what they are seeing directly infront of them and upload it straight to YouTube. Once they have this done this, they can then share it their 'reports' with anyone over social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.