CITIZEN AND COMMUNITY JOURNALISM MIDTERM EXAM - Cruz, Jan Patrixia Mae R.

CRUZ, Jan Patrixia Mae R.                             Citizen and Community Journalism    BAJ-2B                                                                  

 

In your own opinion what is the difference between citizen and community journalism?

In my own understanding about citizen and community journalism is that they both tackle societal issues and concerns that need to be addressed to the public. Wherein citizen journalism focuses on the concerns of the citizens in a narrow range of societal dilemmas while community journalism is more concerned about the whole aspect of the society or a community in specific. Apart from this, citizen journalism plays a role of giving information about a certain topic and can be a source of information for news or stories. Moreover, community journalism covers a more diverse and wide range of sources of information from a local neighborhood rather than national or global news. Also, citizen journalism is a way of disseminating information through a citizen or non-journalist profession to deliver information to the public accompanied by a journalist for fact-checking the information while community journalism it is also a process of collecting information through a specific group of people to deal with their concerns. In conclusion, both citizen and community journalism plays an important role that can be a source of information to disseminate to the general public. Either of the two need to be done through experience in certain situations in order to give factual information about an issue or concerns. 

Current social issues in the Philippines that you think need to be addressed in Community Journalism, how and why?

I think one of the current social issues in the Philippines that needs to be addressed though it is not something new is the spread of Fake News especially on platforms like Facebook. Wherein most individuals use this as a source of information or news. Probably in the Philippines, a lot of people spend their time browsing on different social media platforms. This feeds their minds that these platforms are reliable sources of information but in reality not everyone has the capability to fact check information and be aware about what is true or not. Sadly, people in their 50-60s commonly share fake news and some youth are influenced by this. Apart from this, because a lot of people spend their time scrolling through social media some will probably believe everything is true. I think this issue needs to be addressed even in a community setup especially because most of the public is prone to the issue.