Participatory Journalism I had understood to be, in a nut-shell, for the people, by the people, of the people. But here I am, shaken in my beliefs, that an on-line source exists, that does barely more than just replication of print journalism or a rip-off of any online news site. The article chosen for analysis is titled ‘Rise of far right in Greece worries mainstream’ is a pretty straightforward commentary on the current crisis with Associated Press journalists writing it.
Here I was, all excited, looking forward to get some ‘real meat’ at Newsvine. And what do I get? Bah humbug!
It can hardly be called multi-medial, there is just text, with a window of—hold your breath—10 photos; you scroll and scroll, to what? They could have at-least given a preview of all photos in the form of thumbnails, so that the viewer can go the one most relevant to the heading. Concepts unheard of at Newsvine seem to be multilinearity and hypertextuality: the journalist just provides a linear set of informational chunks, and nothing is hyper-linked. Embedded links to all important names, incidents and places would help place the story into context.
The only sign of interactivity is that it lets you post your comments at the end; and did I mention you can vote on comments too! An interactive map marking the places of interests, and subsequent photographic or video content to glue in the viewer could well provide sustenance to this interactivity-parched story.
The story is well broken into paragraphs, but It follows the inverted pyramid structure; headline is dull; it seems like shovel-ware.
Is participatory journalism just a fancy version of print journalism or another disguised name for online journalism? Is it the classic case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde?
Here I was, all excited, looking forward to get some ‘real meat’ at Newsvine. And what do I get? Bah humbug!
It can hardly be called multi-medial, there is just text, with a window of—hold your breath—10 photos; you scroll and scroll, to what? They could have at-least given a preview of all photos in the form of thumbnails, so that the viewer can go the one most relevant to the heading. Concepts unheard of at Newsvine seem to be multilinearity and hypertextuality: the journalist just provides a linear set of informational chunks, and nothing is hyper-linked. Embedded links to all important names, incidents and places would help place the story into context.
The only sign of interactivity is that it lets you post your comments at the end; and did I mention you can vote on comments too! An interactive map marking the places of interests, and subsequent photographic or video content to glue in the viewer could well provide sustenance to this interactivity-parched story.
The story is well broken into paragraphs, but It follows the inverted pyramid structure; headline is dull; it seems like shovel-ware.
Is participatory journalism just a fancy version of print journalism or another disguised name for online journalism? Is it the classic case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde?
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