Project 1 – Learning Log

This has been an interesting start to the course work.  I really get the concept of ‘citizen journalism‘ and can definitely see the impact it has had on the way news is reported now. (i.e. there is more footage and stills used from ‘ordinary’ people involved in events), I did find it a struggle to find images / stories actually initiated by people.  In particular current and up to date stories.

I decided to ask on the course forum and got some help from some of my fellow students.  This had a few benefits:

a) I think rather than searching for ‘citizen journalism’ I realised I need to look at specific events

b) most of the students shared links to their blogs, which I found really  helpful, with some great examples.

c) one of the students actually pointed me in the direction of a social movement he was involved in, which was not only really interesting but also gave me the opportunity to ask him some direct questions about it.

Whilst I definitely don’t want to copy what others have or are doing, I do really find it helpful of see what others are doing and often find that this often triggers ideas of my own. I will continue to follow them as a source of inspiration during the course.

So now armed with this new focus I’m going to revisit the brief.