Citizen journalism - the democratisation of the media enabled by advancements of heldhelled digital equipment and their increasing availability combined with web 2.0 features like blogging lets members of the public contribute to mainstream media.
Emily Bell talks about the difference between the professional journalist and the citizen contributor - and the fact that the work of the paid journalist is not always qualitativley better than the amateur citizen.
Googlezon presents a vision of the future where the collaboration of Googles storage space and bandwidth with Amazons huge commercial infrastructure to create an environment where members of the public are paid to provide entertaining material for the news based on their popularity, and the offline printed press is aimed at the older, 'elite' generation.
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