BEARING WITNESS: CITIZEN JOURNALISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES

Authors: Stuart Alllen, Prasun Sonwalkar and Cynthia Carter

Presentation: Muhammad Sheharyar Rana

What is Citizen Journalism?

The Answer• When ordinary citizens/people such as ourselves, start reporting/highlighting informative issues faced by the local masses•When ordinary people start performing the duties of a news reporter•When such duties are performed they become citizen journalists•And the process that involves these citizens reporting informative news stories is known as citizen journalism.

The main theme of the article revolves around how the concept and principle of citizen journalism has paved way in everyday life, demonstrating its effectiveness with regard to 3 situations: 2004 South Asian Tsunami Human Rights abuses in India’s north

east region Palestinian Crisis in Occupied Territories.

Palestinian Crisis in the Occupied Territories. Impact of Citizen Journalism.

Bloggers creating a platform for ordinary Palestinians to give an account of the atrocities they have to face in everyday life.

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