Anadolu Bil Meslek Yüksekokulu Dergisi
Yazarlar: Mehmet Nafiz DURU, Mustafa Nafiz DURU
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Anahtar Kelimeler:CitizJournalism,News Literacy,Reporting,Information
Özet: Citizen journalism, a rapidly growing concept based on random individuals actively taking part in reporting news, violates the basics of news literacy those have been thought in journalism schools for decades. Citizen journalists lacking of objectivity and journalistic ethics lead to countless inaccurate, biased and subjective reporting done by people who either want to have a little “fun”, intent to cause damage, jump the gun or seeking conspiracy theories. However, what makes citizen journalism dangerous is not only the journalism done wrong but also the human nature that fail processing information thoroughly; our brain, as the result of evolution, leading us to seek for bad news, our instant belief in information we gather is correct until something more convincing challenges that particular knowledge and the way we collect information not to enlighten ourselves but to confirm what we think we know is true.