Thursday, 19 November 2009

Key terms

Citizen journalism - Public 'playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information'
Web 2.0 - Where people can interact with webpages and edit the content such as Facebook and Wikipedia
Pubic Sphere - an area in social life where people can get together and freely discuss and identify social problems and matters of mutual interest
Convergence - Different types of media coming together, e.g. Red button on TV - becomes more like online news where you can access more information
Interactivity - How much the user can engage and control what they watch/receive in the media
Accessibility - How easy it is for the audience to access the media

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