Citizen journalism in Serbia

Citizen journalism has long ceased to be a phenomenon, a trend. It has become an everyday activity, first in the West, in the societies where technology and civil society are most advanced. Later it became possible for readers to become actively involved in the process of creation of media content.

Blogs (and, of course, Twitter) are still not as influential in Serbia as the traditional media. However, citizen journalism will inevitably become a competition to the professional media. There is nothing wrong with that. Citizen journalism brings the spotlight on topics that are (deliberately or not) ignored by the traditional media, serving as a watchdog that controls the quality of news.

Unfortunately, expansion of citizen journalism in Serbia has led to strained relations between citizens and professional journalists. The Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia (NUNS) has decided to launch an initiative to organize a series of round tables dedicated to the relationship between these two forms of journalism. The first event, held in the Media Center under the title "Social Networks and the Media: Twitter in Kosovo", was inspired by preceding events in Kosovo and reporting by the Tiwtter community, on the one hand, and the traditional media, on the other hand.