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According to Jeff Howe, a current Nieman fellow and contributing editor of Wired magazine, the increase in online news has also led to an increase in amateur journalism or “crowdsourcing?? through mediums such as online blogs and Twitters. Howe said that these forms of news should not replace professional journalism...
...also see if other users around the world are experiencing the same problem, creating a real-time database that catalogues and monitors which Web sites are down or restricted. By calling on Internet users to report their experiences, Herdict utilizes a burgeoning internet trend known as “crowdsourcing??—asking large groups of people to perform some task in an open forum. Internet access has become more than just a technical issue in recent years, as the Web has become a portal for political dissent and information dissemination that many governments fear might foment...
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