Ways citizens do journalism

Drawing up different kinds of participatory journalism

From stating your public opinion to data mining

Live drawing from CitizenScience conference. Illustration and text by Frits Ahlefeldt

Street journalism or guerilla journalism are two other names for when citizens research, write and publish information and stories

It can be content of many kinds, from reviews, to opinions, eye witness reports and comments.

But also when non professional people participate in and publish knowledge and projects like open street maps, or spend their time and use specialist knowledge to go into databases to build and visualize hard to grasp data and statistics, helping everybody, including the professional journalists.

Illustration of four types of Citizen Journalism. ( public opinion, Likes and reviews, Co-creation and Public data flow mining )Drawn journalism by Frits Ahlefeldt
( Illustration ref: di01167 no txt )
Illustration of four types of Citizen Journalism. ( public opinion, Likes and reviews, Co-creation and Public data flow mining ) Drawn journalism by Frits Ahlefeldt
( Illustration ref: di01167 txt ) “Four ways non-professional journalists publish”

Keywords: CitizenScience, participatoryscience, citsci2022dk, citizenscience conference aarhus Citizen science, civic science, crowd science, journalism, reporting, co-creation, public data and flow, public opinion

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