Week 5 Discussion

The five main types of participatory journalism discussed in the chapter are sources, user feedback, user-generated content, crowdsourcing, and citizen journalism. Journalists usually seek experts and people with emotion related to the story as good sources. User feedback is important for journalists to create conversations in the comment section and also provided feedback as well. User-generated content is anything contributed by a user on a journalistic site. This can come in as a form of user feedback. Crowdsourcing is where members of the audience are harnessed in a more organized way to cover a specific story. Citizen journalism is where nonjournalists pay the main role in creating journalistic content. These types compare to one another by centering around the audience and the average person in these stories. Whether through interviewees or being the story creator themselves, the average person take the charge through these five types. Twitter, now known as X, is a prime example of all of these types. There are a lot of recorded quotes from sources, a lot of user feedback in the comment sections, user-generated content have origins from X, crowdsourcing happens very commonly on X, and anyone can become a journalist on X being an example of citizen journalism.