Not too many years ago, if we wanted to know about a huge event that happened, whether it’s good or it is bad, we would check primary news sources. We would read the newspaper, watch the news, and eventually we would look on the big news websites. But this has changed.

In our modern age of technology, when searching for a primary source concerning an event or landmark, why would we want to know a professional journalists opinion, when we can know what the real citizens think and see? This is when citizen journalism comes in. When someone takes a video or picture of an event or notable topic, and posts it, it becomes citizen journalism. Below is a Ted Talk by Brian Conley about this very topic.

This very interesting and current topic, is one that is very easy to grasp and see on social media. It isn’t an easier way to see news, right? It can be more than that. These videos and photos can be serious pieces of evening in things like police investigations, sporting events and controversy’s, times when humanity is at its highs, lows and much more. It is also included in a lot of books and media sources. A book that we read recently was Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow. You can check out his blog Here.

I do not want to spoil the book, but this book is all about social injustice towards the public, specifically youth. In this book the Department of Homeland Security (D.H.S) is investigating like crazy after a bombing on the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. During that investigation, there are multiple injustices towards the youth and public, and the only way that the youth can have a voice over the government is thought their videos; through citizen journalism. I do not want to give to much away about the book, but in this case it is connected throughout the book, and it is the main resolution piece. I will leave it at that.