Project-4
Course Code and Name: MSJ 11203 Communication and Technology
Project Name: Blog
Project Date: Fall 2021
Project Description: In this project I learned how to develop my own blog site and make connections with interesting content. This course covers a range of technical aspects including the utilization of free website buildings.
Project Justification: This Project enhanced my skills and created my own blog website and writing interesting articles. The objective of this project was to gain hands-on experience,navigating both the creative aspects of blogging and technical components.
Final Blog Project: https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/4500643966172024705/7288192252230845894
Media Studies and Journalism
Course: MSJ 11203: Communication of Technology
Semester: Fall 2022
Final Project: Blog post on Digital Citizenship
Submitted To
Sarkar Barbaq Quarmal, PhD
Assistant Professor
Media Studies & Journalism Department
University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB)
Submitted by
Student Name: Ashikur Rahman
ID: 193012062
Submission Date:
1/15/2022
We live in a world where many social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter have taken over like a storm. We are constantly receiving and sharing news or other media without having second thoughts. The present innovation additionally makes data at this point not just created by the broadcasting studio. Progressively far and wide web-based media creates news that can be delivered by anybody. Journalism done by simple citizens is sought to have the option to enable individuals in improving and care for their current circumstance, and lessen the news restraining infrastructure by specific business gatherings. Yet, of late, data has become such a great amount toward each path. Now and then this data actually should be confirmed and inaccurate or frequently called a trick. Also, the news delivered by citizens doesn’t satisfy acknowledged editorial guidelines or standards.
In order for us to understand in depth about our topic, we first need to know its meaning. Gatekeeping is a kind of filtration in which data is separated for dispersal, regardless of whether for distribution, broadcasting, the Internet, or other communication method. Gatekeeping happens at all levels of the media structure-from a journalist concluding which sources are picked to remember for a story to editors concluding which stories are printed or covered, and incorporates news source proprietors and even publicists. People can likewise go about as watchmen, choosing what data to use for an email or in a blog. Citizen journalism is journalism in which normal people who are not professional play the role of a journalist by collecting and sharing information by reporting and editing it by themselves. They are very much equipped with great writing skills, camera and lastly a different social media account in which they can distribute their collected data. These social media platforms include Facebook, YouTube or Twitter.
Now we know the meaning behind the topic, let’s focus on a few factors on why we need gatekeeping in citizen journalism. One major issue with this kind of reporting is that it will be hard for individuals to choose what to accept, not at all like customary news coverage, where it is almost certainly correct that the data spread is authentic. This implies that resident media ought to be checked and once again checked for precision to create news that is reasonable to print. As may be obvious, anybody these days can record and compose anything and afterward present it as truth, so it is vital to recall that we are managing people here, and it is our temperament to alter data to our own resemblance, which can make informal news inconsistent.
Citizen journalism can sometimes be biased. It can be influenced by the reporter’s thoughts or beliefs. One’s idea, and convictions might impact resident reporting. It very well may be a greater amount of an assessment rather than a reality. Many individuals are enthusiasts and scholars that sound persuasive when they recount a story. It is trying to figure out which data is genuine and which are unadulterated theories. Along with the rebuilding of the news business, it is critical to build media proficiency the country over. While the Internet has made the production of data as simple as the snap of a button, it has additionally caused the interpreting of data to turn out to be significantly more confounded. Inquiries of what is newsworthy and what sources to trust should be replied.
Sometimes many inaccuracies and unethical work can be found in news done by citizen journalists. News are generally just put in their perspective; they just put in what they think and how they feel about it, not hearing anybody else’s point of view on the matter. Morals of citizen journalism is a troublesome branch of knowledge to study in light of the fact that various columnists, various media houses and various creators have disparate and restricting sentiments on the severe perception of morals with regards to the real act of news-casting. Selective and fascinating stories are as a rule about individuals and their 53 private lives and are probably going to support resident news-casting. One more impediment of citizen journalism is that the news they set up onto the web or send up with the established press spots could be wrong or not completely right as it very well may be.
The Gatekeeper concludes what data should move to gathering or individual and what data ought not. The gatekeepers are the chiefs who control the entire social framework. Gatekeeping is the crucial of news reporting and that it is as yet an essential interaction in new distributing designs. Gatekeeping is vital for blunder checking, lucidity and punctuation botches, grammatical errors, and really looking at content for any possibly derogatory issues or inhumanity toward individuals named in stories.The gatekeeper is having its own impact like social, moral and political. In view of individual or social impacts they let the data to the gathering. Through this interaction the undesirable, reasonable and disputable data are taken out by the gatekeeper which assists with controlling the general public or a gathering and giving them access the correct way. In the news medium, the editorial manager assumes a crucial part. He needs to conclude what sort of information things will distribute and what ought not. Consistently the news channel gets different news things from everywhere in the world. The channel has its own morals and approaches through this the proofreader chooses the news things for distribution or circulation. Now and again barely any news things are dismissed by the editorial manager due the association’s strategy or the news things which are not reasonable for distribution.
In conclusion, despite the fact that citizen journalists are all the more dynamic, and report the needed news, there is absence of restraint on distributing news that of some kind or another is by all accounts missing. Additionally, the genuineness of revealing is turning out to be less in one of every ten news stories. Yet, what’s to come is likewise in the possession of citizen journalists now. The more individuals are becoming instructed and are presented to innovation and its development, the more is the rise of resident columnists. To the extent of creating models and theory to assist with propelling the participatory media model, gate watching is one idea that could be applied to participatory news tasks (Bruns, 2003; Bruns, 2008). Bruns (2003) affirms that there are presently, “a huge number of entryways through which possibly newsworthy occasions and data arise into the public field… also there is an immense scope of news sources which are occupied with some type of „news‟ detailing, policing their own doors” (p. 4). Consider conventional gatekeeping that expects that media associations and news experts work under set up practices and standards to guarantee that newsworthy and dependable data is given to buyers (Livingston and Bennett, 2003). With gate watching, nonetheless, the news proficient figuratively turns into an administrator and guides newsworthy data to the crowd. Librarians in “Bruns model” are more keen on the crowd rather than the data suppliers, and it is conceivable that unconfirmed data and predisposition are given to customers. This puts liability on the buyer to turn into a functioning purchaser and look for extra sources or track down current realities (2003).
Referencing
Citizen Journalism: Meaning, History, Types, Pros and Cons
Gatekeeper Bias and the Impact on News Content
Learnings and outcomes ( self reflection):
Improved my writing skills
Creating and organizing blog profile
Explore many things about digital citizenship