Practical 7

For this week, our class learnt about what is Citizen Journalism.
Let me briefly talk about what is Citizen Journalism.
Citizen journalism is when private individuals do essentially what professional reporters do – report information. That information can take many forms. It can include text, pictures, audio and video. But it’s basically all about communicating information of some kind. From my point of view, i think that citizen journalism is a good way for normal people like us to evaluate their point of view, their opinion on certain matter.

During the lesson, we were given a task to form our own group to discuss and evaluate STOMP based on purpose,coverage,authority,accuracy and currency. Our group members contains 5 members. All of us are from different country(singapore, malaysia, china and indonesia). While we were discussing on stomp, all of us keep making fun of boonseong(who is a Singaporean) due to the "Singapore seen" news.  This is because stomp always show embarrass moment of the locals. (we are very bad i know:) )

For the evaluate part, i would like to work on accuracy and currency.

I find that for STOMP, information may not be that accurate bacause information in the STOMP

website is not posted by professionals.STOMP is open to everyone as long as they are registered members. Due to not everyone are proffesionals, the source of the information may not be confirmed and even there are images or video to support their post, alterations might be done to those so called evidence.Other than that, the informations provided by them may be bias thus it maybe misleading.

As for currency, i think that stomp is always up to date as there is always new post everyday and sometimes there is also follow up of certain matters.

If i were to create my own stomp base on my research topic, i would like to have a reference catagory where the stompers would put the link or title of the books or journal to support their information. next, i will recomments the stomper to do a research first before posting, this is because i dont want my stomp to become a site which will mislead my readers.