For Lesson 7 we were ask to read an article on "Citizen Journalism" and we ask to use one word to describe what Citizen journalism mean to you. However, i forgot what's the word i pick haha. After that we form a group of 5 people.
We chose purpose as one of our evaluation criteria, the purpose this website is to expose news which is not reported in the newspapers. And for coverage, this website covers mostly on embarrassing or grueling stories ranging from public nudity to street fighting. Sometimes it would also covers news from other country such as china. We chose this cteria because there was also much to talk about the information presented in this website, because everyone would be interested in little gossip about Singaporeans. In terms of accuracy, the information given in this website were very accurate and reliable in explaining what is happening in the Singapore. Though the stories may or may not have been reported in the news, in this website people can comment on the news and the photos of the ongoing scene. We also chose this criteria since there was much to talk about, like the two criterion above.
If I were ask create my own version of “Stomp” in relation to my research topic, I would apply Citizen Journalism by getting users to send me their stories to posted it up because if users are to posted the story up by themselves, there would be some who would tend to post stories that are totally untrue and also i would allow them to show photos about the effects and causes of endangered species. I would also ensure that the users can post up their comments so that they could express on how they feel about the stories and also to help the community learn from the user's experience and also include mood statistics like in Stomp.com, ranging from "Happy" to "Concerned".
