Rupinder provided a fairly convincing argument about the currently emerging shift of power from traditional media to citizen journalism. At the same time, the posts offer a fairly unambiguous picture of the phenomenon without highlighting the potential problems and wider social implications. The suggestion that professional and non-professional journalists may work together in the future is remarkable. In fact, researchers note that citizen journalism is associated with problems of confidentiality, censorship and can also negatively influence the spread of crime (Darbo & Skjerdal, 2019; Yan, 2021). In this regard, traditional media, as a more structured system, can integrate citizen journalism to mitigate these risks. As part of the discussion of media movements and hashtags, I would like to emphasize that it would be useful to mention the role of social networks in shaping the political agenda. These movements led to broad political and social transformations, which became the basis for the formation of a new public consciousness (Brownstein, 2020). Thus, media power has a number of more significant implications for influencing the life of society. It is also important that citizen journalism can become a source of problems that, due to its structure, have long been addressed in traditional media.
References
Brownstein, R. (2020). The Black Lives Matter protests preview the politics of a diversifying America. CNN Politics.
Darbo, K. N., & Skjerdal, T. (2019). Blurred boundaries: Citizens journalists versus conventional journalists in Hong Kong. Global Media and China, 4(1), 111-124.
Yan, N. (2021). Social media is redistributing power. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 9(6), 107-118.