citizen journalism

Media before the emerge of blogs as the" Citizen journalism " in the era of internet, media giants used to be the only provider of the truth, now Blogs provide us with all the means of democracy which we might have not experienced before the internet and Blogs especially.
Bloggers nowadays became dangerous to some governments for the opinions or news they put into their entries.
The purpose of the media is to be instructive, informative, and for entertainment as well, these are or were the main roles of the media, but through the decades of the media development only few big capitals were dominating the media channels so in this case the credibility decreased to a lower level in spite of the huge image about some media giants like BBC or CNN had been already formed in peoples minds as the shortest way to the truth.
Later, and during the last few years new media emerged as a strong competitor to the ordinary forms of media, and here we find the personal and the participatory touch
Blogs representing one of the most personal and participatory media ever found, because media before the emerge of blogs as the" Citizen journalism " in the era of internet, media giants used to be the only provider of the truth, now Blogs provide us with all the means of democracy which we might have not experienced before the internet and Blogs especially, now we have the video blogging as well as the written ones, all this and more made governments like in Egypt to arrest and stop or try to stop some famous bloggers to go on with uncover the ugly face of the truth or what they think is the truth.
Nobody now is able to tell us which news is worthwhile or not, you can with a click of your mouse to search the blogs in any language and find what is going on and in case you have another view point or opinion about the particular issue, you can leave a comment on the blog entry and other people will or will not share you the opinion but this at the end give Blog another advantage beside participatory and personal, it gives blogging the interactivity which may be lost in other media or at least not found in this way.
Israa Abdul Fattah, a 28 years old human resources manager in a private company in Egypt, an online activist who has been announced as the Facebook Arab President according to an election held by around 100,000 Arab facebook members, they thought it was a joke and even Israa but when she found a group named it "6th of April, protest for all the Egyptians" huge number of people joined this group and they have really done it on the same day at the same time in the same place which made the police to arrest Israa and keep her in the jail for 15 days and then another 15 days for encouraging the public against the government.
Israa is a very important case to be studied by sociologists, and media professionals because it is really different than other cases where secret photos or documents are shown on the net or video showing this celebrity or that politician doing things people didn’t expect them to do, Israa's case showing hidden feeling and passions in the people that they just wanted a small push to start bringing out what exactly they feel about certain issues.
This was number one only, now we start with number two which is more famous than the previous but I like always to save the best for the last.
www.manalaa.net
www.malek-x.net
www.speaksfreely.net
http://misrhura.blogspirit.com
www.anaikhwan.blogspot.com
These are not my internet resources for this article, these are the names of famous and popular blogs in Egypt whom owners and writers have been arrested minimum 1 time.
These bloggers became famous in the Arab world after the stories they have covered outside the jail like the behavior of police men with the protesters and how they have violently hat them by sticks or even shot them, this is outside the jail, but what about inside the jail when they have been arrested???
Alaa, the owner of www.manalaa.net, and while he was in jail, he sent some messages to the bloggers outside to post his writings to keep his blog updated and to tell the people what is really happening in jails.
His blogs became widely spread to the level that the HRW took it seriously and sent a letter to the Egyptian government about these violations to the human rights and if continued the HRW will ask to open an international investigation about this case and others as well.
This is second case, and the third case is about Iraqi bloggers or lets say bloggers from Iraq because sometimes it not the Iraqis who record the resistance operation against the invasion forces in Iraq, but sometimes the US soldiers themselves recording and clicking photos to what is happening to them or even writing their online dairies which are really terrifying to their people and that’s why all the official bodies taking their posts seriously like Al-Jazeera Channel, Al-Arabiya news Channel, CNN, BBC, and others.
Even the US administration sent its orders to the troops in Iraq to ban the process of blogging for the soldiers and officers in the US army there.
All these stories showing us nothing but the important role of the new media which made nothing can be hidden, and this support the people and not governments or political bodies like before, now media is really the citizen media.