In my general view, participatory journalism is a very good organized “forum”. Usually, all good forums give people a great opportunity to exchange with information they really like. I mean they can discuss or write about those issues, which as they think might be interesting or important for others to know about. the thing is that these people do not have to be proffesionals in journalism and writting;) There is such a web-site http://bb.ct.kz/, which seems to me very interesting, and might be a good example for a partipatory journalism, here in Kazakstan.
When I first saw it, I noticed how many important issues attend there. All writings, articles are subdivided into different blocks. For example, in the block “charity”, there is one little article “Children, who need you help”, one girl wrote about different activities which would be taken in Almaty according to this issue. She wrote a sort of a little article. She gave some dates and left her contacts. Under this article other people wrote their opinion. So, it is kind of discussion. the structure of this site is ,that sombody writes an “article”, gives some facts according to it, and then readers discuss it.
Another thing is, that this site has it’s own rules according to which visitors should paste their writings or ask questions. In general everything is quite simple to understnd. All issues are interesting and serious. as for me, I can say that most writers give objective information, about what they write, though I understand that they are not journalists.
I think it’s great that this kind of “blogs” exist exactly in Kazakhstan. That there are people who care, and are interested in what is going on in our country, that non-proffesionals, usual students, citizens can inform us in such a simple way, i.e. “participatory journalism”. sometimes I feel myself more interested in reading such articles, whether in reading the ordinary ones, which go from real journalist, because sometimes they are very limited.
I really liked this site very much, I read many interesting things, I guess this one is a good example of a participatory journalism))))
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