HZQ II

'A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.'

Sunday, January 17, 2010, 2:06 AM

Practical Se7en!

For this practical,
we were to evaluate Stomp.com as a platform for citizen journalism in Singapore.

So, what is citizen journalism?

Well, its basically news report made by normal people like you and me, who weren't employed by any party to do the job. Read this article for more information.
(http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2006/09/your-guide-to-citizen-journalism270.html)

The idea of citizen journalism is that anyone without any professional journalism training can pass out news to anyone, anywhere. This can be in the means of the internet,, in which citizen journalism has grown in.

News forums which are open to the public serve as a platform for more 'in depth' analysis of a story, told from a more clearer perspective of a person who might have encountered with that certain situation.

Here, the flaw of citizen journalism, would be that the news could be brought up by unreliable sources, therefore, reliability of a news has to be taken care of, so false news wont be accepted as the truth.

STOMP.com.....

1)Which criteria did you use to evaluate Stomp.com? Why did you choose this criteria?
2)What lessons have you learnt from this activity?

Stomp.com is one example on how citizen journalism is done. And with a more entertaining variety of news reports. So, one the the criteria I used to evaluate Stomp.com was in terms of coverage.

Stomp.com covers mainly local news in Singapore, as it being part of Singapore Press Holdings, SPH.

As we can see, such news are based on happenings in Singapore. This was reported by fellow Stomper, Vivian. She met up with this incident while she was on the expressway.

Other than news such as this,

Stomp also covers a more whackier and humorous side of news reporting. Most of the stories are not serious or has got nothing to do with any serious issues whatsoever. This is just basically part of 'reading for entertainment'. But, this is makes Stomp unique as it covers basically everything, serious in nature or not, as long as it makes a good story to be heard.

Another criteria that I evaluated Stopm.com is with in terms of purpose.
First of all, the purpose of a news coverage is to let people know or to inform people, as well as to keep people updated with the current happenings in a particular place. In this, Singapore.

Stomp.com clearly have that criteria as it keeps people updated with every kind of happenings in Singapore, be it important news, or entertainment, Stomp.com covers them.

This exercise has really taught me the importance of evaluating websites to ensure its usefulness before I make use of it as a research material.

Goodbye then!

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