Citizen Journalism Unconference/CJ v.s Professionalism.

• What is news?

1. News is new message
2. News is any journalistic record with influence
3. News is related to public interest -- But, what is "public"?

• The meaning of CJ in two contexts:

1. Any platform / media for citizens to publish their information, messages, comments or perspectives. Such as Blog, Drupal, traditional printed materials... etc
2. Specific centralized CJ sites such as indymedia, globalvoices, ... etc

• CJ as a...

1. way to redefine what is "public interest", which was lost in most traditional/mainstream media due to its market-orientation.
2. alternative to over-capitalism in the media industry.
3. alternative to elitism

• 公民新聞的興趣有歷史社會背景--主流媒體媒合商業利益與消費者，而非媒合人民

• 菁英政治的獨斷，壟斷訊息的主導時，公民新聞的興起是讓隱沒的聲音再度揚起。

• 多了參考討論的空間，它不消滅舊有的但使得傳統的新聞多了分自制。

• Professional的社會正當性，也許是可以被打上問號的。

• CJ inherits from traditional journalism: impartiality, accuracy, self-awareness and transparency...

• CJ對professionalism的定義不再是單一的，不變的，而是容許多元價值的存在。