Mass
amateurization refers to the capabilities that new forms of media have given to
non-professionals and the ways in which those non-professionals have applied
those capabilities to solve problems (e.g. create and distribute content) that
compete with the solutions offered by larger, professional institutions. It has
empowered people from all over the world.
Information sharing has thus
changed over the course of years. News outlets and followers of news have found
many ways to disseminate information. As the traditional news gathering
changes, social media sites like twitter and Facebook have become a significant
source of news for people.
In ”Converging
Media”, John V Pavlik, and Shawn McIntosh noted that “the increased power of
the human audience members to communicate with journalists and with one another
in a public forum” has posed a great challenge to the foundation of
journalists. People are able to report news stories with their electronic
devices and report either on social media or on their personal blogging sites.
This has brought more room for photography as well as videography. Thus readers
are presented with choices.
Nontraditional news sources view themselves as
content providers because they are able to put out there news stories that are
sometimes accurate, fast and straight forward without commercial breaks and
other business interests. As gatekeepers, they are able to control what they
want to write and what they want to read. Participating in possibly social
media thus allows people access to information they hitherto might not find.
This is not to say that amaturization is error free since personalized stories
on blogs may ignore in detail the sources of such stories or may be working
with no professional ethical standards.
Works Cited
John V Pavlik, Shawn McIntosh " Converging Media; A New Introduction to Mass Communication".
b Trevor Turnbull, http://www.socialconnectblueprint.com/citizen-journalism-and-social-media-are-driving-the-information-revolution/ accessed on 12/15/2016
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