It is already the 7th lesson of EIR, and this week's lesson teaches me about what Citizen Jornalism and how does it works. According to what I have read, it is a platform for people to contribute ideas or information. Anyone can share their views, and it is not limited to only the professionals. Anyone and everyone are able to comment or contribute information or commentary about news events. Citizen journalismen compasses content ranging from user-submitted reviews on a Web site about movies to wiki-based news. Users can then discuss about subjects, such as the their thoughts about a movie. For example, if I have just watched a recent movie called "Tron Legacy", I would then inform other users about the movie, by stating if it is worth the monet to watch this movie or give a brief summary about the movie to encourage others to watch it if it is a fantastic movie.
The criteria that my group used to evaluate Stomp.com are purpose, coverage, authority and usability. I have learnt that it is important to evaluate a website based on certain criteria, such as those mentioned above to make sure that it is a credible one. The purpose of a website is important, as it allows users like me to understand the nature of this website, for example I will able to know if the website is selling its products to users and for Stomp, my group felt that it was meant for creating awareness to citizens about the recent happenings around us. It includes gossips and scandals, as well as unusual happenings, hence members informs each other about happenings that revolve their daily lives. The intended audience includes local Singaporeans, students and people who love entertainment news. Foreigners can also access Stomp if they love entertainment news. It also includes the About Us section of Stomp, as it informs users what the website does. Also, from authority, I will be able to judge if a website is trustable, by looking at the authors of the website. If the authors are of unknown background, the website is most likely of low authority. Another thing on authority is that one can tell from the level of security of a particular website. For example, if users can easily access and comment or post related videos or pictures, it may imply that the authority of the website is low, as people can easily make comments without factual proves or may be biased. As for Stomp, it is an award-winning website and it is being managed by SPH, so it is quite an authorised website. Lastly, my group did usability, which we felt that it was easy to use, as we are able to navigate around easily. Hence, it is user-friendly. However, we felt that it is quite troublesome if we want to find an article that is dated long before, as Stomp does not have facilities that helps us to search for articles that are back-dated.
If I were to create my own version of Stomp, I would create a channel or platform for students and/or teachers to post of their experience of using Twitter in education, such as if they have benefitted significantly after their teacher introduced Twitter in education. I would include various topics, such as education and technology, which my research topic - development and usage of Twitter in education- falls under. I would include other topics such as food and entertainment too, so as to have a wider coverage and include a wide variety of subject topics and materials. As Citizen Journalism is a platform for people to contribute ideas, I may write few artcles about what I personally think and include various evidence, whether Twitter has indeed helped in students' education system. I would also create frames in my website to make it neat and user-friendly, so as to allow for better navigations to other web pages. One thing that I qould keep in mind is that I will make sure that there is a moderator, ie. the ideas generated will not be one-sided and also make it more relevant, so that my version of Stomp will not be focusing on people argueing on who is right and who is wrong or the comments wre only one-sided.
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