2009 Airplane crash-lands into Hudson River

Mumbai Terror AttackChina-Earthquake

2005 London bombing

Citizen Journalism

• The Social Web has empowered people to express themselves using blogs, videos on Youtube, pictures on Flickr, etc.• It has become very easy for an individual to have his/her own video channel, online radio show, blog, book published, etc for free/very little cost.• Social Media is causing big changes in the media and journalism industry.

www.fpov.com

The astounding photo below- taken from a river ferry by Janis Krums is one of the earliest photo taken with a iPhone and uploaded to Twitter.

This photo provided the world instant, realtime and accurate picturization of the crash.

www.fpov.com

Citizen journalism refers to everyday people playing a role in contributing, collecting, reporting, publishing news & information.

People can use Web 2.0 tools which has the power of global distribution to have their voice heard.

www.fpov.com

Everyday blogs, comments, video channels, wikis, etc all aggregate to the trend of citizen journalism.

The internet with all the Web 2.0 publishing tools complemented and supplemented by real time connection, communication & collaboration are changing the way media is consumed and produced.

www.fpov.com

Citizen journalism sites like Groundreport rely only on citizens for the news published.

GroundReport is a world news platform where reporters can submit articles, photos or videos of news events on politics, business, technology, sports and the arts.

www.fpov.com

iReport is the way for people to report the news. iReporters helps to shape the story that CNN covers everyday.

www.fpov.com

• Collaborative & contributory media sites allow users to submit, vote, discuss, and collaborate on user stories.• The most popular stories bubble to the top.

www.fpov.com

• In all the above cases - people present on the ground - uploaded live pictures/videos to the social web.• Once on the social web - these news bits spread with accelerated velocity.

Plane Crash Mumbai Terror Attack China-Earthquake

Such citizen journalism is in some cases happening almost accidentally. Most people are just sending this information off to their friends. The main thing to take from sites like Twitter and Facebook is that they are informal modes of news dissemination.

Susan JacobsonAssitant professor at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

www.fpov.com

A picture taken moments after a bomb exploded on a number 30 bus in London's Tavistock Square on 7 July 2005 has won the first citizen journalism award.

www.fpov.com

In the next hundred years, information won't be just pushed out to people. It will be shared among the millions of connections people have.

Mark Zuckerberg CEO, Facebook

Increasingly the well-known pictures of significant events around the world, such as the bombings in London on 7 July 2005, are coming from citizens rather than professional photographers.

www.fpov.com

Teaching Technology to the Non-Technology Leader.

Technology never stops evolving and we never stop following it. Led by international technology speaker Scott Klososky, we’re a team relentlessly focused on capturing and translating ways organizations can use technology to win markets, adapt cultures, and remain ahead of the curve for years to come. From public and private workshop tracks to full-scale organizational technology assessments and digital outreach blueprint strategies, we’ve got enterprise technology growth covered.

Take a closer look at:

www.fpov.com(405) 359-3910info@fpov.com

vision you can use