fbpx

Technology drives Citizen Journalism

When I saw this hi-def video of the Serendra car explosion yesterday, I thought this is the future of citizen journalism — live or almost live video broadcast of incidents as they happen, taken by ordinary people.

Still images are no longer enough. People want live video — high definition video. Take for example these series of footages taken by one of the witnesses in yesterday’s incident at Serendra / Boni High Street.

Technology drives citizens journalism. We need more mobile phones with HD video recording, more portables devices like the Flip MinoHD to be more affordable, and convergent devices like the iPod Nano Video to be more connected over-the-air and a much faster/better 3G connections for live “by the minute” coverage.

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 984 other subscribers
Avatar for Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

27 Responses

  1. Avatar for Name: Name: says:

    Unknown message

  2. Avatar for Elvis Winik Elvis Winik says:

    One thing that many antique hunters have resorted to carrying around in this particular reason is your back light. Using a black easy reveals things that you wouldn’t be able to see in our regular range of spectrum gentle. But, under the black light, these well-done maintenance become obvious.

  3. Avatar for vince vince says:

    Just think, if one of the 57 ampatuanized persons was able to broadcast live video …

    Even better if the news networks had a UAV following the convoy.

  4. Avatar for Therese Panganiban Therese Panganiban says:

    Every freedom comes with at least one responsibility. The challenge for all of us is how to make the rapid pace of technology work for, not against, promoting social justice and development. :-) Such an exciting time we live in!

  5. Avatar for gambit gambit says:

    Definitely!
    Technology drives citizen journalism and I would say there is more to come.

  6. Avatar for Solidad Romero Solidad Romero says:

    As Citizen Journalism seems like a god send for unbiased reports, and instant field reaction to the scene proper. Broadcast media still has a key role in this instant information world we live in.

    Like yan example na video. Misleading, at masyadong instant wala pa masyadong information kasi kakaganap pa lang. So, IMO ang magiging trabaho dapat ng Mass media ngayun ay i filter at i analyze yung mga ganitiong entires sa internet. So far, may edge ang ABS ngayun compared sa GMA. GMA medyo nag tetesting pa sa youscoop nila (althou yung mga cory wake at yung burrial ay step up compared sa ABS special).

  7. Avatar for ianmedina ianmedina says:

    @petken i have flip ultra hd. better get silicon case

Leave a Reply
JOIN OUR TELEGRAM DISCUSSION

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *