BLOGGING ADVANTAGE FOR CITIZEN JOURNALISM

Blogs are a social genres,” Rettberg writes, and: “Blogging is a relatively type of free form social software, and are decentralized” (p. 37). Blogging has changed the way public opinion information is delivered. Different from the way the media once controlled all information. Rettberg notes that media such as television, radios, and newspapers were the only means for society to receive news about the outside world. Now, at the touch of a keyboard anyone can access various points of views on the outside world and events, and make a subjective assessment of what may or may not be the truth.

Blogging has provided many special advantages to citizens journalist and is becoming the worlds nexts thing. The advantages are many according the bloggers interest (numerous subjects). According to many bloggers there's no need for an expensive bureau they are familiar in the filed of their interest and familiar with the events and language. Its also a warning to governments that forcefully control their people and their outlets for free expression. Blogging for citizen journalists has been the tool to resolve the tenacity and rescrictions of suprecive goverments. Bloggers are not journalist, they share their personal information with truth and emotional opinions, and they investigate issues that real journalist publish as said in chap4 of Blogging. Blogging has become where the relationship between press freedom and citizen journalism campaigns is meet. Even though its created controvieries it has opened the doors for public opinion and expressions to be heard worldwide. In the book Blogger Magnus Ljungkvist discoverd that Maria Borelius, failed to pay taxes to her employees. Journalist had published wrong information, citizen journalist reveal the truth creating honesty and credibility to bloggers.

As known Cuba has been a communist country for more than 50 years. There is no public media for journalist opinions in Cuba. The Media is controlled by the government and there are no leaks for people to put opinions. Yoani Sánchez says in her interview “I have coined the term that we Cubans are “undocumented” on the web”. She claims the only way to enter the internet in Cuba is finding leaks in the web. She shares her personal life in Cuba being Generacion Y.Generacion Y blog is her most popular sites visited by people with interest or even debates with her topics. She believes her main concern is to report the Cuban life as it is and not filtered. She does this in a respectful way by not insulting. Yoani never confronts her government and does not create conflict. She writes events of Cuna that affect her personal life. Ted Henken interviewed Yoani Sanchez in “Verbal Violence to Citizen Cyber-Journalism" Yoani claims her blog since Cuba news filters her reports and censored by the Cuban government.

This has been an advantage for Citizens like Yoani Sánchez to post their journal and political opinions to the world. This obligated her to develop what she likes to call a “citizen network,” outside Cuba, where people who help her and her husband post there texts. She is a well educated woman that communicates political problems through her blogging and gives scholar opinions that may offend certain parties and food for thoughts for others. She backs up her opinions with arguments, not with insults, defamations, or incendiary language. Her advantage is that her opinions have meaning and she wants the world to be part of the real world of Cuba.

In my opinion I feel that blogging has changed the way media information is interpreted. Blogging has to be filtered because the truth is told to a certain extend. Blogging has a lot of personal opinion and personal feelings attached to it. Blogging is a place where people show their feeling and opinions to matters around the world. Relying on blogs as a substitute on journalism is a liability because information is changed and filtered to blogg their opinions. I feel that Yoani Sánchez blog “Generacion Y” is informal to a point. We have to see it as an opinion rather than a source of information. She claims that her blogg is for Cubans that were born during the 70’s and 80’s (generation Y) and people that being with the letter Y.