Diffusing and Getting Journalism Knowledge through Social Media  

Oleh:

Mustika, Sri

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 2nd International Conference on Business and Communication (ICBC): Managing Change in Global Context : Toward Sustainable Competitiveness, page 008-016.
Topik: Citizen Journalism; Facebook Uses; Journalism Knowledge; Social Media
Fulltext: Proceeding The 2nd ICBC p8-16.pdf (583.73KB)

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After the coming of the Internet the world seems to run more quickly. Events happening everywhere can be known by others only in a few seconds. Through the Internet, especially social media like multiply, blog, and micro-blog such as Twitter and Facebook (FB) people chat, connect and share experiences, ideas, express feelings, and exchange various information from one another all over the world. The amount of the Internet users increased day by day and Indonesia is no exception. In the country, the penetration of Twitter users has shown being number one in the world, which is of 20.8% from all Internet users in the world, followed by Brazil, Venezuela, Netherlands, and Japan. While the rate of FB users in 2009 reached the fifth position and in 2010 it increased to third position, or about 26,792,780 users. Nowadays many press industries, particularly mass media industries, use the Internet to win its business competition. Even Kompas daily which is the biggest mass media company in Indonesia does this strategy to increase its audiences. On the other hand, social media network has many links with mass multimedia. Many news portals share link with social media network in order their information to become a discourse among members of virtual society. Through the Internet people can become a citizen journalist. They seek, write, and distribute information by themselves. To enhance their knowledge on journalism, they can join citizen journalism groups on social media. In this forum, everyone who wants to participate in the citizen journalism can log in and enhance his/her knowledge or share their journalism knowledge. Through this social media activity, journalists may improve their professionalism.

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