Personal response to "Rise in ethnic minority students at UK universities"

I read an article entitled Rise in ethnic minority students at UK universities yesterday in BBC. The article said that in 2007-08, there are 16% of people (studying at UK) from black, Asian or minority ethnic background. It is found that there are only one out of 10 people from ethnic minorities studying at Oxford University and Cambridge University. The study also found that ethnic minorities were excluded from labor markets. U.S. National Science Foundation said that 44% of the UK black Caribbean young men, only 16% of people can have a chance to go to the University.

Ethnic has been widely discussed. Despite this democratic peace of society is still inevitable unfair treatment. This article called for providing financial support to help Russell Group university minority students’ alumni fund to provide minority representation. I think that higher education institutions should help and receive more minority students.

Although the state and the Foundation also have a lot of work to solve the problem of low minority students, but I believe that because more and more people will concern about the black and ethnic minority students, these issues will be solved. It is hoped that the new media appeal to more people’s attention to the blacks and minority ethnic students in order to solve the problem of inequality.

Citizen Journalism - What Is It ?

Citizen journalism should not be mixed with community journalism or civic journalism, which are implemented by professional journalists, or collaborative journalism, which is practiced by professional and non-professional journalists working together.

The idea behind citizen journalism is that people can use the tools of modern technology and the global distribution of the internet to produce argument or fact-check media on their own or in collaboration with others without professional journalism training.

There are many examples in citizen journalism. For example, you might write about a meeting about charity on your blog or in an online forum. Or you could fact-check a newspaper article from the mainstream media and point out factual errors or bias on your blog. Or you might snap a digital photo of a newsworthy event happening in your town and post it online. Or you might videotape a similar event and post it on a site such as YouTube.

Citizen Journalism is a democratic media form. Because of popular participation and influence, the mainstream media coverage will become more objective and more rational. News will no longer speak several media, which will become the common voice for the whole society. More and more newspaper readers or television viewers involved in news production through the Internet, camera phones, cameras and other technology tools. Media and audience interaction has undergone major change. As the mainstream media, "citizen journalism added the voice, and is real voices which are not processed."

Citizen Journalism is that in the new media environment, citizens play a leading role in the process of new dissemination in the news media.

Anyway, everyone can be Citizen Journalist.