Can citizen witnesses report on conflict: the potential of new media technologies

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/2183-6019_4_4

Keywords:

Citizen journalism, new media technologies, war and conflict reporting

Abstract

Non-professionals are increasingly involved in reporting news, especially by using new technologies and applications: satellite phones, Skype, Twitter, YouTube, blogging, streaming sound and picture, and social networking. But citizen journalism is controversial, especially regarding war reporting. I take up the extent to which people without journalism training but ‘armed’ with reporting tools can report on war and conflict. I first summarize the challenges to legacy news organizations trying to cover international war and conflicts and describe several projects to assist freelancers and citizens. Given the dangers to freelance and citizen war reporters, I suggest some workable interventions.

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Published

2017-11-09

Issue

No. 4 (2017): Communication and social transformations

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