Citizen Journalism

Hi,

This post would be on Citizen Journalism. The criteria that i have used to evaluate Stomp are purpose, Coverage, Authority and Accuracy.

I have chose all of these as i think these are much more crucial if i were to judge if the site that i am searching is reliable and useful. In this way, information can be search more effectively as if the site is does not score well in these few ratings, the information might not be very useful or redundant.

What i have learnt are that when evaluating a site, i can think what is the purpose of this site, is it to educate, share, gossip or entertain. While coverage will show what will the site cover or what does the site have. Authority is about who is the author of these information, as information that comes from different people may vary and lastly accuracy is if whether the information on the site can be trusted or not which is also somewhat dependent on Authority.

So if i were to create my own version of Stomp, the thing that i would do differently is to set a filter on the site so that explicit content will be removed and not posted on the site and also to sometime post up a picture and ask for opinion about it. Next is to also post different things on the site that might also increase the general knowledge of the general public and also to educate them. I also think that it is very important to get more teenagers to frequent these sites so as to participate and to know more about the society as sites like these also provides information to people besides reading the news.