Participatory Journalism in KZ.

November 8, 2007 at 3:49 pm · Filed under Class work

Journalism is integral part of everyone’s life. Living in the 21st cetury it is hard to imagine ourselves without the means of mass media. People are govern themselves by searching news and finding out what is goin on in the whole world. To be in the center of occurrences people are helped by jurnalists. And there are also many another ways to collect information. In this case the mose popular way is a movement of participatory journalism. Participatory journalists are ordinary people, they can be even specialists in the different lears of society, but they are aimed for informing others about latiest events. This movement also affected Kazakhstan. The big approvment  received online participatory journalism sites. The brightest example of it is www.media.kz .

www.Media.kz is a web site which represents the participatory journalism. This site uses russian language and unfourtunately it is not mentioned for foreigners’ interests. Media.kz uses modetators which means that readers can control the work and thems of published articles. Visitor is encouraged to vote for the topic that pleases him and if this topic will get more than 5 “for”, it will be on the first place as a headliner. Site has 2 ways of publishing news. First way considers articles which writer found out from the another site, but they surely mention the link, so it is not violation of author’s rights. Second way is when author writes the news by himself publishing it on the site. It makes the work of writers easier, so a lot of peole use namely this site to express themselves.  

Site is well-organized. It very easy for the readers to find information which they want. All topics are distributed into different categories. Economics, Ecology, Business, Fainance, Science, Culture, Politics, Cars, Showbusiness, Sex, Fasion, Music, Movies etc. are the thems that this site  grazes. The RSS is also available, which is so comfortable for the owners of bloggs. www.Media.kz provides also very usefull links, for example the weather in the regions, labour exchange and some entertaining functions. I pointed out that one of the best thing in this site is a forum. Anyone can register and discuss evrytning. Forums are also presents the act of participatory journalism. But despite of the countable advantages, this site has one big disadvantage. Readers can not fully trust on what did they read as anyone can be a publisher. The main thing that we can rely is just their personal conscience. And it is better for readers just to prove the information that they get from the sites of participatory jouranlist on the official media issue, fer example  look through the lines of informational afents.

In my opinion, www.media.kz is really good site which fully supports the development of  participatory journalism in Kazakhstan.  By now I am a reader of this site, but in future as I will get more experience I would like to be an author. I recoment media.kz for everyone who are intereted in the latiest events.  

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