Citizen Journalism and a more secularized film industry.

General information on citizen journalism industry - journalism and then how it evolved into citizen.

Journalism is the practise of reporting and investigating events and issues that take place.

Johann Carolus's Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien, published in 1605 in Strasburg, is often recognized as the first newspaper. The first successful English daily, the Daily Courant, was published from 1702 to 1735

 Citizen Journalism is effectively the name for journalism that has been taken into the hands of members of the public. Examples can be viewed in the videos of the people who attended the recent student protests and the events were reported on social networking and recorded on video.

Examples of citizen journalism include using twitter and facebook and blogs to report the news and incidents. 

 How film has involved into a secular industry. Film used to be an industry where the biggest companies were only able to produce full length feature films. Now it is possible with today's technology for anybody to upload a small video about literally anything onto video hosting sites like youtube and facebook.

Good and bad things about democratisation-
the good things about film and citizen journalism are that it opens up a whole different way for people to get their views and news across and can restrict it to whoever they want to view it.

Bad consequences : if everybody posts rubbish then it is harder for the most talented posters to have their work seen and recognised. There is also potential for inappropriate material to be posted and accessed by the viewing public.