The iPhone and citizen jounalism
Jun 9th, 2009 | By Scribe Team | Category: Featured, Health
The newest version of the iPhone has video recording capabilities, thus enhancing the already speedy ‘life-to-web’ transmission rate. Rachel Sterne, chief executive of the citizen journalism site, GroundReport, claims that “Mobile is the future of citizen journalism”. The iPhones have a ’send it to YouTube’ feature, which will expedite the story-telling process.
Click here to read the complete article on the New York Times website.
It is really amazing the ways in which technology is forcing a major change in journalism! The rise of internet self-publication and citizen journalism, aided by exciting technologies like the new iPhone, are likely to have entirely unanticipated influence on the future of journalism. There are some great discussions of these issues at http://www.ourblook.com/component/option,com_sectionex/Itemid,200076/id,8/view,category/#catid69 which I have found useful in thinking through the potential changes coming to journalism itself.