Citizen journalism – what is a citizen?

“Citizenship also often implies working towards the betterment of the community one lives in through participation, volunteer work and efforts to improve life for all citizens.” (from wikipedia).

Community is important for citizen journalism. Can the community be a virtual one? Can we have citizen journalism in virtual communities? Can one be a citizen of a virtual community?
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1) Does business mean making money? So is the question, does citizen journalist get paid? Does the money come from add on blogs or from freelance salary from different sources.

2) Also Sam Whitmore is concerned about literacy, but more of reading and writing. Often we speak of digital literacy and this would include the skills and wills of using blogs and RSS and mobilephone and satelite television. Sam has a "audio feed" a kind of audioblog or his own radiochannel. That is one solution for helping people who don't want to read.

But is there business (money) in this? This is a relevant question only if you need money. Some one can be doing this just to pass the time or to help others of the get recognized:-)

The power of citizen journalism might not be in one individual blogger. It might not be a way to get rich for most of us. It does not have to compite with business of atension (newspapers, broadcasters and so on.)

Power of citizen journalism might be in the idea of global village. In the idea of 150 persons in a tribe and about 1000 contacts as a personal network. Citizen journalism makes you rich in your contacts. People get to know what you want to do and you will find the right contacts to get it done.
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Find my voice?

I like the idea of experimenting more. Lately I have become a ware of who much we copy others stories. In films it is easy to see, but I think we do it in written stories too. We have an understanding of what is important and how to story should be told. If we can find a story from backyard, where can we find our personal way of sharing?

Citizen journalism

I am trying to figure out, what is citizen-journalism. It can be a hobby or a profession. In a hobby it is enough to be read or to be heard. As a profession we need to get fame or money. (Fame or recognition is “money in many areas.)

So for everyone is important to understand why they are writing. (I am doing a PhD on this.) Also it would be good if your audience knows where you come from. In citizen-journalism a very big issue seems to be creditability. Does the reporter have a hidden agenda? (As if that would not be the case in traditional journalism?)

The point I am trying to get is, that one way of thinking of civic, citizen or public journalism is think of it as “Hide Park”. Your box is digital media. In Hide Park the speakers can see their audiences. We need to see ours in citizen journalism. The story might be from the backyard, but who is interested in listening to us?

Check http://www.ireporter.org

Tools for mobile communication

Yep, I will start looking for tools and software to be connected to internet all the time. Or when ever I want to. I want to know what would be the cheapest and most useful environment to send videos and to be in contact with my tribe.

Call for friends

Dialoque is the way to get knowledge and understanding. For that I need more friends that are interested in growing. I want to know more about how we communicate and how we learn, and how we survive this race with development.

Take care...