Citizen journalism is the concept of members of the public "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information''
The first examples of news being generated by ‘ordinary people' was in 1991 when footage of two white police officers beating a African-American man was tasered him and beat him with clubs after a high speed chase.
Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and flickr
Gatekeepers decide what is and isn't news.
The primary concerns held by journalists over the rise of UGC is that they might lose their jobs however big organisations and institutions are buying sites to reduce their competetion for example Microsoft investing in Facebook.
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