Citizen Journalism
I made an entry about ABC National Radio's segment on citizen journalism. Recently I was a browsing a book on blogging and came across the same words. The book described citizen journalism as
“A concept that allows people to redefine what is newsworthy and participate in a form of communication traditionally closed to non-professionals. “
The book discusses on Video blogging, another interesting concept of blogging. Unlike traditional newscasters, these video bloggers do not shoot themselves in the scene. “Vloggers” is another short form name for video bloggers. The book goes on to describe that vlogging citizen journalist are more concerned about covering whats important to the community that they live in. E.g. I stay in Clementi and there is a new library on board, I can do a video story of the library and people from Clementi would be reading about the library on my blog, with a full video shoot. (Verdi et al. 2006, pg. 39-40)
An example of video blogging @ Minnesota stories
This is a blog designed by state residents about spotlights, personal stories, local politics, music, eateries etc etc, things that affects the community basically.
The important thing to note if you are going to do a video blogging would be the choice of topic, the tone of voice and of course the audience. So get these three things in place if you want a sound video blog.
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