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"Now new technologies mean that the audience are no longer passive receivers of news."
"The audience have become ‘users’ and the users have become publishers. Audiences now create their own content. We are in the era of user generated content (UGC) where the old divide
"This change has been the development of new technologies such as video phones and the growth of the internet and user-dominated sites.between institution and audience is being eroded."
E.G "We first felt the effects of the new technologies way back in 1991." The film footage can be still be viewed. Try looking on YouTube under ‘What started the LA riots.’
"This was one of the first examples of the news being generated by ‘ordinary people,’ now commonly known as ‘citizen journalists’, ‘grassroots journalists’, or even ‘accidental journalists’."
"Millions of people have constant access to filming capability through their mobiles, and footage can be uploaded and rapidly distributed on the internet."
E.g "The power to make and break news has moved beyond the traditional news institutions."
Twitter and flickr came to the forefront during the Mumbai bombings in India in late November 2008. As bombs exploded across the city, the world’s media got up-to date with events through reports on Twitter and Flickr. There were questions raised, however, that by broadcasting their tweets, people may have been putting their own and others’ lives at risk.
E.G "It was on Twitter again that the story of the Hudson River plane crash on January 15th 2009 was broken to the world. With a dramatic picture of a plane half sinking in the river, and passengers crowded on the wing awaiting rescue Janis Krun tweeted: "There’s a plane in the Hudson. I’m on the ferry going to pick up the people. Crazy.""
