EIR Practical 5 - Citizen Journalism

EIR Practical 5 - Citizen Journalism

There are a total of 8 criteria to be evaluated in Storm.

• Purpose
• Authority
• Coverage
• Accuracy
• Presentation and Arrangement
• Usability
• Accessibility
• Currency

Purpose

Storm is for entertainment, gossip, provide local news and also to criticise other people behaviour. Take a look at the example below it is for entertainment purposes

Bus mounts kerb and charges into path of pedestrians

Haha...Nice parking skills I wonder how he park so nicely between the traffic light and the lamp posts.

Authority

Storm is managed by "The Straits Times" which was a famous Newspaper company in Singapore

Coverage

Storm covers information that rarely appears on The Straits Times such as gossip and criticises. One of the examples that appear in storm: “Couple hugging and kissing on MRT”. Such incident will be criticises on stomp.

Couple hugging and kissing on MRT

Storm provides free online “My Paper” and has a forum for people to share their views or discuss about other topics.

However, storm does not include topics such as business, science and technology.

Accuracy

Information is accurate because almost all topics have pictures as evidences. Storm is managed by The Straits Times which have professional editors to edit their story and also decides on what stories to publish.

Information sometimes may not be true

The photo below can only proof that someone sneak into her room but it can't proof who steal her GF's undies because the photo is unclear. Moreover, they can write up a fake story to attract more viewers.

Topic: Landlord's son sneaks into my GF's rented room to steal her undies

Presentation and Arrangement

Homepage have a lot of picture to attract my attention. Nicely arranged top stories are on the top. Every article have picture which makes the website interesting.

Usability & Accessibility

• User friendly.
• Easy to navigate around with big font size easy to see.
• No broken links
• Require login to post and comment

Currency

Most articles are published 2 - 3 days after the incident because they need to get approve by administrator. Those articles are for entertaining purposes therefore it is still current.

Create my own version of “Stomp”

My topic is on "the impact of financial crisis on spending habits and consumer market". If I were to create my own version of “Stomp” it will be a mixture of storm and forum. My topic is about business and economic which have plenty of words and it is boring. Anyone that has created an account can send us articles. we have editors which are profession in business and economic to edit their work. Information about shares or Forex can be posted into another section that information will be entertained immediately. Anyone that misuses this feature will get ban.

My version of storm will target teenagers which have pictures, comics or even videos to illustrate about the business and economic. Business and economic will also be linked to real life examples and jokes. Therefore it will be interesting and entertaining at the same time it provides readers with the knowledge of economic and business. Language will not need to be formal as long as the information is correct.

People can comment, criticise if the information is wrong, further explain and discuss about the topic. This became about the same as forum. It is to ensure that all articles are accurate.

I know that it is very difficult to understand technical terms therefore there will also be a glossary.

Classmates EIR Blogs

I will be commenting on Rui Xue blog...

• Her Blog posts are up-to-date with beautiful template.

• Fonts and font's size are consistent

• Contrast colour therefore is easy to read and is caring for the eyes

• Pictures and animation which makes the blog look more interesting

• User friendly because is easy to navigate around