Week 5

This week we learned about consumption and production, i found out what citizen journalism is and how much of an impact and influence it has on the media. If there was no citizen journalism there would be a lack of fast news. for example on September 11th the footage of the first plane hitting the tower was taken by citizen journalist and without then that footage would not exist as the mass media could not have been there in time to record that footage. Other topics discussed in the lecture was -

• News and Information
• Mo-jo
• Entertainment
• Fan Films
• Mash-ups, Re-Genres and Re-cuts
• Internet Short Film
• Mobile Content Production

After this lecture I have have now realized how many new communication technologies are involved in consumption and production.