00000ctm a22000003a 4500 UP-99796217610426061 Buklod 20120724102328.0 m |o d | ta 120724s2012 xx d r |||| u| (iLib)UPD-00187106071 DMC eng LG 993.5 2012 M3 T67 Toraja, Marymize Famke Basmayor 1991- Strangled citizens an exploratory study on the empowerment of citizen journalists Marymize Famke Basmayor Toraja; Josefina MC Santos, adviser. 2012. xii, 78 leaves Vita. Undergraduate thesis (A.B. Broadcast Communication)--University of the Philippines, Diliman. "Nowadays, a growing number of people around the globe are accessing the Internet for various reasons. Through the years the Internet has played a major role in changing and improving the way people communicate. With the flourishing of the Internet, people could post anything on the Web which leads to the concept of empowerment in terms of expressing themselves online. At the present time, media practitioners are not the sole sources of news since people who were consumers of news then can now make and report news themselves. This thesis explores citizen journalism (on the Internet) in the Philippines setting. To provide a better understanding of the phenomenon, this research delved on comparing the citizen journalism practice in the Philippines to the global practice. A comparative analysis of GMA 7's Youscoop and OhmyNews, which is considered as pioneer in citizen journalism, is included in this research. Employing Hamelink's concept of Empowerment, Political Economy Approach, theories such as Expectancy-Value, Framing, Gatekeeping, Systems and Star, the researcher found out that empowered citizens journalists get disempowered. Due to the commercial character of the network and news making process, citizens get strangled. The mass becomes voiceless." Citizen journalism. Online journalism Philippines. Santos, Josefina MC. adviser. FI UPD DMC LG 993.5 2012 M3 T67 Thesis