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“Sharek and Voice-to-Twitter: When Citizen Journalism Finds its Own Space in a AlJazeera and Google”
Last modified: 2011-03-26
Abstract
Since the launching of satellite channels in the Arab worlds, the majority were considered to be the mouthpiece of its own governments and the Arab citizens were repressed to accept the governments monopoly of news and media. However, with the increasing number of the Internet users among Arab youths and expatriates, their own issues are being highlighted and heard worldwide.
Recently, two revolutions occur in the Arab world. In fact, what changed the formula in the Arab world was the power of the online citizen journalism. This paper shed the light on three of the Egyptian-revolution’s aspects: 1) the factors which accelerates the importance of citizens journalism in the Arab world. 2) The usage of social media and technology by the movers and shakers of this revolution to communicate their message to the world. 3) And the support they’ve got from main media firms and communication providers.
After that the paper went on to focus on the repercussions of Citizen Journalism in changing the face of not only the traditional journalism, but also, the political atmosphere in the Middle East and how can it be of future usage. Mainly, the paper relied on analysing the content of citizen-journalists tweets, blogs, and podcasts, as well as press releases by governmental officials and media and communication companies.
Recently, two revolutions occur in the Arab world. In fact, what changed the formula in the Arab world was the power of the online citizen journalism. This paper shed the light on three of the Egyptian-revolution’s aspects: 1) the factors which accelerates the importance of citizens journalism in the Arab world. 2) The usage of social media and technology by the movers and shakers of this revolution to communicate their message to the world. 3) And the support they’ve got from main media firms and communication providers.
After that the paper went on to focus on the repercussions of Citizen Journalism in changing the face of not only the traditional journalism, but also, the political atmosphere in the Middle East and how can it be of future usage. Mainly, the paper relied on analysing the content of citizen-journalists tweets, blogs, and podcasts, as well as press releases by governmental officials and media and communication companies.