Written communication is becoming increasingly important. The global challenge of making chemicals usage sustainable. Diaspora communities: potentially powerful drivers of change. Millions of people cannot afford more than a mere shelter — that has to change. Political movements express discontent - and where civil-society space is limited, they become campaigns for democracy.
US democracy is still in danger. Civil society and local government. Sustainable business and sustainable environment. Democracy and the rule of law. Disasters and humanitarian relief. Employment and the fight against poverty. Food security and agriculture. International relations and cooperation.
Peace and human security. Physical and social infrastructures. World regions. Sub-Sahara Africa. Southeast Asia and Pacific. Namely, citizen journalism in Malaysia is seen as an opportunity in various ways, including opportunities for citizen journalists themselves.
The second theme was citizen journalism as empowerment for youth. The findings demonstrated that citizen journalism is seen as a medium of opportunity for youth to share their perspectives and ideas on emerging issues surrounding them, including issues on existing media practices in journalism, which may potentially be featured in mainstream media.
In other words, citizen journalism enables youth to have a voice that is crucial for the development of youth. Additionally, new perspectives on the mindset of youths' demands and needs were presented through youth citizen journalists. Correspondingly, youth citizen journalists understanding of citizen journalism indicates their abilities to act as a useful mechanism in disseminating more reliable content in media for audiences of all ages.
Thus, the role of a citizen journalist transcends beyond news reporting. Furthermore, youth citizen journalists' opinion on journalism has influenced their perception of their positions as citizen journalists and their viewpoints on ethical practices.
Hence, issues on the reliability of the news produced by citizen journalists are no longer a problem in the Malaysian context as the citizen journalism viewpoint concerning ethical issues has been established in this study. Thus, despite the differences in experiences and journalistic exposures, citizen journalism contents should be considered. Despite the contributions of citizen journalists in enriching the local media landscape and increasing content variety, attention should also be given to citizen journalists in acknowledging their efforts in improving existing media reporting and inspiring other journalists.
However, the extent of citizen journalists' contributions are still unknown; thus, further study on these aspects are highly encouraged in understanding the roles and impacts of citizen journalists in improving existing media reporting and inspiring other journalists.
Moreover, research on citizen journalism in Malaysia needs further exploration within the Malaysian context. Owing to the increase in the usage of social media, the influences of citizen journalists in journalism should not be neglected. It was essential to understand the general scenario and the trend of citizen journalism, both internationally and in Malaysia. Besides, it has become increasingly important to recognize the importance of technology as the platform that provides an opportunity for more citizens especially young people to contribute to this growing trend and how this group of young people can contribute to improving existing media landscapes.
Her research area is in journalism, participatory media, youth and media, mass communication and public relations. She is also involved in various qualitative research methods and analysis projects in her faculty as well as other organizations. She also has keen interest in community empowerment particularly in the disabled community and social equality. She can be reach at mastura.
Her research interest is on communication technology and culture particularly on the use of ICT and culture. She has been involved conducting several researches in her area of expert at local and global level.
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Nurse Researcher, 17 2 , pp. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Kajian Malaysia: Journal of Malaysian Studies, 38 1 , pp. Real journalism gets diverted due to its association with different alliances and political parties. It is quite evident that the grassroot level happenings are conveniently ignored by the mainstream journalists, who are busy broadcasting reports which can get them higher earnings. The drastic increase in social networking and advancement in technology has made citizen journalism platforms more active and reachable.
Citizen reporting is more focused and issued-based in nature. There are numerous initiatives taken up by citizen journalists in their communities. It is a system developed with the help of Microsoft Research India to allow people to use mobile phones to send and listen to audio reports in their local language.
Choudhary has created a boom in the tribal land of Chhattisgarh by creating a technology to help and increase global reach by virtue of its websites and training professional journalists at the same time.
CGnet Swara is transforming the shape of India in terms of communicating, sharing and receiving news. Drinking water is not available in the village for a long time. Wells in the village gives dirty water, which causes diseases in the village. Opinions are divided about this new situation.
On the other hand, there are those that reject outright the possibility of non-professional voices, or at least those who are not journalists, who work separately from the newspaper companies, starting to compete and share media with journalists.
Without doubt, social networks, blogs and other online tools are here to stay. It is also clear that not being a journalist is not necessarily synonymous with a lack of quality or rigour. Yet there is definitely still a need for information professionals to publish well-prepared and selected news stories, someone to act as a mediator between this new writer and his potential public, composed of the enormous mass of voices and public.
For this reason it is possible that the solution is to be found halfway between those who support the total opening up of the forms of information and those who reject any such move in this direction.
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