The rise and rise of UGC

1. What is meant by the term ‘citizen journalist’?
2. What was one of the first examples of news being generated by ‘ordinary people’?
3. List some of the formats for participation that are now offered by news organisations.
4. What is one of the main differences between professionally shot footage and that taken first-hand (UGC)?
5. What is a gatekeeper?
6. How has the role of a gatekeeper changed?
7. What is one of the primary concerns held by journalists over the rise of UGC?

1. Citizen journalist means that when ordinary people generate news because of the improved technology over the year, people are becoming citizen journalists, people are distributing news videos on the internet for people. As this women is saying that anyone in the society we are living in now can be a journalist.  

2. The first example of news being generated by ordinary people was the Rodney king incident.As a Black man was beaten up by four police office, as they thought he was under the influence of drugs, as this guy run from the police offices as when he was caught the man was beaten by the police and was hit 53 times with the police's stick. this was caught on tape by a person who was on the same street when this happened. 

3. Some of the format participation are: message boards, chat rooms, blogs with comments embedded on them, and Q&A. some of the biggest social networking site which contain this is Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Myspace.

4. The difference between professional shot footage and first hand shot footage, is that the professional footage is often more hard hitting and emotive. free hand create such a understanding of realism of the footage and show the audience how nature the shot is, having a professional shot it exclude the main idea of realism to the audience and viewers. 

5. Gatekeeper are the people who decide what is the news or not, if this information is right for the audience, would they understand and how this would effect them in the future and present, as they have the control of the news in this society.

6. The role of the gate keeper has changed as many people have a chance to write and comment on anything they feel is news, as before many people didn't want to say anything in society, but  now people feel that  people say and write anything in society to create news.as thesis will attract and stand out to such a mass audience in society.