Wall El Zahed s Paper Centering On The Environment...

Despite Wall el Zahed’s paper centering on the environment surrounding the movement of information within a single country, Syria, the same headings still ring true regardless of the boundaries of control and censorship. With the newfound accessibility to uncensored â€Å"pop up news,† control and censorship is being lifted and a true picture can be seen for the first time giving rise to social and political understanding. The conceptualization between user generated content (UGC) and journalism are evident throughout both papers in which they agree on the impact and in cases, exploitation of social platforms as well as advancements in technology. Both reach similar conclusions in the assumption that despite the method of accessibility changing dramatically in recent years, the thirst for real-time news and information is as insatiable as ever. While both Wall el Zahed’s and Jonsson Ornebring papers outline the evolution of journalism through multi-platforms, Jonsson Ornebring centers on the impact and diversity of user generated content and its many aspects. Wall el Zahed put forward a very compelling argument with access to a growing market of citizen mass-self communication sources, smaller authors could play a vital part in the redistribution of social power as well as enabling the corporate media access to pool of real time feeds. As previously outlined, this would in some way waver the control of a given situation, something Jonsson Orbebring’s paper goes