Hot Issues in the Discourse on Citizen Journalism

DOI

10.2991/eltlt-18.2019.62How to use a DOI?

Keywords

citizen journalism, discourse, hot issues

Abstract

With camera-equipped cellphones found everywhere today, nearly anyone is possible to collect, report, analyze and disseminate news stories and information in the process of citizen journalism. Democratic societies are demanding independent and relevant information in a wide range of quantity. The present study is aimed at identifying the hot issues emerged in the discourse of citizen journalism. Clauses are determined to use as the unit of analysis in figuring out the ideational meanings of the texts in the discourse on citizen journalism. The findings suggests that hot issues emerge in the discourse including the idea behind such a phenomenon, the way it distinct from conventional journalism, the way camera proliferation changes our lives in the realm of law enforcement, the conventional journalism’s obligation towards citizen journalism as the former gets more and more relies on the latter in terms of the contributive content, and whether cameras lies when images are misled, cropped and enhanced. In addition, violation of privacy and bullying on line is another issue to address

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Djoko Sutopo
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TI  - Hot Issues in the Discourse on Citizen Journalism
BT  - Proceedings of the UNNES International Conference on English Language Teaching, Literature, and Translation (ELTLT 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 321
EP  - 324
SN  - 2352-5398
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