فاعلية المواطن الصحفي كمصدر معلوماتي للتغطيات الصحفية : دراسة حالة على برنامج صالة تحريربقناة الخرطوم الفضائية في الفترة من يناير-ديسمبر2013

Abstract EN

The Journalist Citizen as a source of Information for Media Events Using the Digital Communication Technology-A case Study of Sudanese Journalists The recent and unprecedented huge developments in Communication Technology and the prominent birth of the social media led to a huge increase in spreading information.

This is coupled with the huge and rapid increase in the social media users.

The importance of these social media tools must be related to the degree of their competence with the professional norms.

There are some common social and important media terms on which there is no agreement on their definite semantic reference like citizen journalism.

This research work, therefore , aims at discovering the impact of the citizen journalist as a source of information in press work.

To realize that , she used investigative-analytical approach on a sample of 65 Sudanese media persons Key words Citizen journalism , media coverage, information sources, information technology.

The researcher has found out that72.32% of the respondents believe that modern communication tools have increased the volume of the media coverage and made things easy to get urgent and direct information.

She also has found out that 80% of the respondents are interested in and made a good use of modern technological communication tools.

Most respondents try hard to good use of these technological tools.