Chicago Plus-Size Style Examiner: How to dress like British singer Lily Allen

Chicago Plus-Size Style Examiner: How to dress like British singer Lily Allen

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Citizen Press

Citizen journalism, to me, it’s the growing future of journalism but I also feel that referring to yourself as a citizen journalist, you need to follow the similar lines of real journalist. Unfortunately, bloggers don’t see themselves as traditional journalist. In the Poyter article, the author easily expresses the different and various forms of citizen journalism. Everywhere you look, you can get tips, books and what not, on how to publish articles, to be a blogger, or you can even write articles for websites like Helium.

I do however appreciate that with web 2.0, myself and several others are capable of sharing information. In my opinion, I feel as though some of the community individuals have lost their trust for the media, therefore seek out the truth from peers, inexperienced or not. You don’t necessarily need a journalism degree to be a journalist anymore. The citizens have taken control of the media; for example look at Perez Hilton, who has made a claim for fame. Look at TMZ or other celebrity gossip, who post stories that we take as true and full of facts; that sometimes isn‘t fact and full of assumptions. They have made a name for themselves as a ‘legitimate’ sources.

Citizen journalism is what makes the world round because without it we wouldn’t have been exposed to the events of the past. For example, Rodney King and the Los Angeles police beating or Bristol Palin’s pregnancy less than a year ago. Without a blogger or a video vigilance individual, we would be without. The citizen journalist triggered within the media field, professional media field, to unmask the truth and to report what was going on.

In the Poyter article, the author mentioned about comments within the blogging system. I appreciate comment areas because they trigger emotion by including the reader and also allowing the author to look more into the story than previous. Also, the author mentioned that commenter might be able to share information along with the journalist.

My opinion could be seen as calling as the pot calling the kettle back. I publish weekly articles on the Examiner and so, I would be considered a citizen journalist but I have taken the approach of being a journalism student with ethics. I look at both code of ethics (SPJ’s and Rebecca Blood’s web log ethics) and I seek to fully cherish and follow them. Why? It is my duty to do so.

Chicago Plus-Size Style Examiner: Forever 21 to start selling plus size clothing in May

Chicago Plus-Size Style Examiner: Forever 21 to start selling plus size clothing in May

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Chicago Plus-Size Style Examiner: Torrid offering a new brand, Kitson

Chicago Plus-Size Style Examiner: Torrid offering a new brand, Kitson

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Chicago Plus-Size Style Examiner: Fat is beautiful

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Chicago Plus-Size Style Examiner: Great plus size summer dresses

Chicago Plus-Size Style Examiner: Great plus size summer dresses

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The infection

Like a virus, internet memes infect its host, who then carry the infection to others, unknowingly and knowingly. Spreading like wild fire, the internet meme carries on like a bad joke, that some can’t get out of their minds. One example to me, would be “Charlie bit my finger” and the fact that it was carried on and on from person to person. Before last August, I had never heard of this so-called Charlie and his highest views amount on YouTube. My roommate introduced me to Charlie and from that point on, I can’t log into YouTube without watching that video and still laughing my ass off because of the so-called humor.

Internet memes have brought people from around the world together, just to watch some hamsters dance on the screen or from the Star Wars Kid, who is my personal favorite. I enjoy the fact that to this day, I can watch this little fat kid impersonate a fighter in Star Wars and get a kick out of it every single time.

The describing of a the declining of crime on the streets of New York and using what I know and have read about internet memes, leaves me to wonder and question if these internet phenomena will eventually die down? Eventually the ‘joke’ or ‘infection’ gets boring and people move on but looking at videos for example of Chris Crocker, some things never get old. I saw the other day of Seth Green impersonating Crocker on the E! show The Soup. Which is fascinating that some people, like Crocker can still be relevant.

Here is the video for Seth Green’s impersonation.

 

The great thing about YouTube is that you will constantly see people remix a video, like Charlie’s, Chris’ or the Numa Numa guy, and keep the joke going. But when does that joke finally get old and people move on to bigger and better things?

 Another video I absolutely adore is this one as well. Not as popular as Charlie however, she is still a big hit in some aspect.