As was mentioned earlier, broadcast news relies to a certain extent on crowdsourcing, a way of gathering information using the public. This has become easier and more widely used thanks to social media, which allows for nearly immediate response. Crowdsourcing ties into citizen journalism, which can be described as the participation of ordinary people in the journalistic [...]
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Citizen Journalism or Tool for Propaganda?
Posted in Citizen Journalism, Twitter, tagged Iran, Twitter on February 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »