In recent years,the rapid expansion of social media has led to the emergence of citizen journalism, allowing ordinary people to report events independently of traditional media outlets
one of the biggest benefits of growing journalism in social media is fastest dissamination of information. It means that everyone can publish their news independently of his location. News can spread instantly, it plays very significant role in crucial moments, likewise at wars, natural disasters and e.t.c. It means social media improves access to immediate information.Moreover, it helps to introduse democratization of media,everyone have oppartunaty to become a source of information
However,social media plays very crucial role in modern society, but it has own drawbacks. Take for example people who spread information on social media platforms , for example all bloggers with huge audience and check them for truthfulness, many of them will spread fake news . Here we can find very popular issue in social media . It’s lack of facts , and the main reason of this problem is lack of fact-checking , it means that the misinformation spread unchecked. This leds to the scandals and disputes in social media. Also in social media we can find unprofessional employeesthat leads to no professional ethics standarts, if we compare with orgnisations like BBC and THE NEW YORK TIMES w that have editorial review systems
To conclusion, there have many pros and cons in citizen journalism , while it is enhences democratic participation it is risks to accuracy , but it is very important to take measures to reduce disadvantages and prevent disputes in our society.