Hi, guys ! Glad to write my second blog post here 🙂
This week’s reading was ‘Blogs as a Newsgathering and Reporting Tool’, ‘Citizen Journalism and Audience-Generated Content’, ‘Beyond Google: Finding Trustworth Information Online’, ‘Multimedia Newsgathering’, ‘Journalism in the global village’, and ‘Technological talespinning’. This week got alot of reading but quite interesting to read alls. However, I want to focus on writing about Blog from Chapter 3.
What is blogs? The definition of blogs is constantly evolving as blogs move into the mainstream, shedding their image as the bastion of the self-obsessed who just have to self-express. Thousands of new blogs are being created every day, for all sorts of purposes. Rather than existing to catalog someone’s personal life, many blogs serve as discussion communities about particular issues.
I think blogging and journalism is relevant each other because blogs represent some of he more interesting developments for the publishing world since the arrival of the Web. And according to Lenhart(2005), about 8 millions American adults said they had created a blog, representing about one-quarter of Internet users. Blogs have been around since 1997 but their profile rose in 2002 after blogs became involved in some major news stories.
Why blogs are famous among people? Blogs have boomed because they are easy to set up and maintain. A “blogger” createds an account via the Web with a free or paid blogging service. It is very easy to update information and write down your opinion as often as you like if you have internet access. 🙂 There was unforgettable sentence which is “War, politics, and pop culture are all obsessed over and reported on by bloggers. You name a topic and someone somewhere probably has a blog about it.” In my opinion, blogs offer a new frontier to journalists and I saw one blog who are interested in K-pop(Korean popsong) and seems like that blog is representative of Korean pop culture and give a information when there is k-pop concert or fan meeting in Singapore.
Blogs often provide commentary or news on a specific topic, but the largest group consists of personal diaries. the big difference when comapred with traditional diaries is that peple share their blogs. And if you read chapter 3, page 34, you can see author provided an example Australian and American bloggers “how do these American bloggers compare with their Australian counterpart?”. Moreover, you able to find some differences and similarities.
This is end of my blog for this week 🙂 Hope everyone enjoy !!! Feel free to write comment here, guys
Thank you ♡
<References>
1. Lenhart, Amanda, Madden, Mary. and Hitlin, Paul (2005). “Teens and Technology: Youth are Leading the Transition to a Fully Wired and Mobile World” Published 27 July 2005 by the Pew Internet and American Life project. Online at http://www.pewinternet.org.
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I believe that the reason why blogs can be considered as a tool of journalism is that it has the power of outreach – just like any newspaper you read out there.
Combine this tool with elements of Web 2.0 such as Facebook and you get a readily-available platform to launch your opinions and influence the thoughts of others.
Having a blog also allows for people to write unrestricted – at least by the boundaries indicated to them by their employers. This way, one can write freely without having to worry about dragging the company down if a defamation lawsuit follows
I think that it is fair to say that blogging should be appreciated though not necessarily seen as journalism. Blog started as a place or space on the internet where someone logs in and expresses what they feel, think of, believe in, like or dislike. From plain write-ups, it has evolved to showcase the use of pictures, sounds and videos. It is the voice of the people, not through a mediator like a journalist. As such, what we see is what we get and we get to disagree or agree to the content without spending a cent. Journalism on the other hand has turned into such a corporatist field that not only are we being constantly swayed to buy into a certain biasness, we are actually paying for our own brainwashing.
Hi Yale,
Thank you for the interesting and informative post.
I think we can consider weblog as a citizen journalism platform. People nowadays like blogging because they can freely express themselves. Moreover, it allows us to upload photos and videos which may be relevant to the topic that we’re blogging.
I like the quotation that you cited “War, politics, and pop culture are all obsessed over and reported on by bloggers. You name a topic and someone somewhere probably has a blog about it.” This quotation implies that bloggers all over the world write about almost everything in the world. I would say that blogs are where we can find people’s true voices and opinions about various issues, which mainstream media can’t provide us with.
i feel tt many are fond of blogging or posting through any other social media because it makes them feel good that they are making a voice heard by others, or well sometimes, under the ‘spotlight’. however, i can’t help but feel sad for the many desperate individuals who tried all ruthless means to seek for more attention, even through irresponsible posting of sensitive contents.
but well, blog has become so common, even in academic studies. can you remember how many blogs we had over the past two yrs? it has become so boring that people are commenting for the sake of commenting and well, marks (you know, i know, ha!)