GOOD VS. EVIL IN THE JOURNALISM WORLD

It's offical! Julia and I will be working together to create a web site about citizen journalism and traditional journalism. We are still brainstorming how we want to put it all together but here is what we have so far. 

-Julia's research paper was about how citizen journalism is overtaking traditional journailsm. Julia is going to present her side using various images, videos and whatever else she thinks will promote her arguement.

-I will be taking the traditional journalism side and presenting my arguement using images, videos, maybe music and anything else I can find. 

Since Julia and I are new to the web site business, we are going to need a lot of technical support. I believe that are arguement will strong though.  We want t create this web site to bring awareness to what citizen journalism and traditional journalism are going through. We want the reader to make the choice of who is good and who is evil.

Web Site Assignment

Here we go ojn another technological journey that I would never have explored had I not enrolled in this class. My professor has now asked us to creat a web site which will consist of an arguement from one of our previous papers. Never in my wildest dreams would I even consider creating a web site as I am computer clumsy-my own word to describe how computer and web site illiterate I am : ) Anyways, here are the three papers I have to choose from and my thoughts on which one I will be using for tis assignment.

The first paper I wrote for this class was a technological autobiography which lays out my experiences with technology. While I found this assignment interesting, I don't think I will be using this paper for my web site. For me, it is not interesting enough because I believe that my experiences are not very different from many people out there. Not only that, I was never really into technology and most of my encounters with the "cool" gadgets came awhile after they had come out.

For my second paper, I  reviewed a writing space/tool which I had never used before. For this assignment I chose to review FaceBook because I had never really been interested in forecasting my life to the entire world. However, as I joined the site and started working with it, I came to realize that it is a great place to keep in touch with friends. I will not be using this review for my web site because FaceBook is already so well known and established that I don't feel that there will be a strong arguement to convey. Everyone or almost everyone has a FaceBook and I don't want to reitterate information that is already over pubished.

My last paper was a research paper on citizen journalism and traditional journalism. I chose this topic because I am very mush invested in what the future of journalism will be becasue my husband is a newspaper journalist. I enjoyed writing this paper and I feel that this topic will be the best to use for my web site. I found so mush information that I can use to make my arguemment. What I would like to do is team up with another student from class who has taken almost the same route and see if we can present two opposing sides. I would really like to present one side for citizen journalism and another for traditional journalism. Each of us can present our information and let the reader decide if one is better than other or if there is a way for them to co-exisist. I am very excited to put this out there.

The Hard Road

Writing a research paper is never an easy process, and if you think otherwise there is seriously something wrong with you.Teachers are always telling you to pick a topic that interests you so it will make the process easier but I did and I still was on the verge of pulling my hair out. But when all was said, or written, and done, I came away with a better understanding of my topic. I guess I should say that I wrote my paper on citizen journalism. I originally was against citizen journalism but after reading all the papers, articles and visiting the differnt citizen websites, I came to realize that citizen journalism is an important asset to traditional journalism and deserves to be recognized as so. So what were the pros and cons to writing this insightful paper? Well let tell you.

PROS

                       * The topic that I picked was a topic that I was truly interested in

                             * Because online citizen journalism is so popular, I was able to find a lot of first           secondary sources

* I came away with a lot more than I thought

* I turned it in on time

CONS

*The length of the paper

*I could not find sufficient sources against citizen journalism

*my 21 month year old daughter decided that she did not want to go to sleep and kept me from finishing my paper. ahhh kids. they always know when you have something important to do

*the research process itself was trying. I can't handle staring at a computer screen for long periods of time

All in all, this research paper was just like all the others I have done. I am so glad we only have to do one. I don't think I candle handle another one.