Jay Rosen, Professor of Journalism at NYU, offers up his definition of citizen journalism. Do you agree?
You can find Jay's thinking on how the press is changing at .
Filmed at the Netroots Nation conference in Austin, TX by Chuck Olsen of The UpTake, .
‘When the people formerly known as the audience employ the press tools they have in their possession to inform one another’
This is what he said.
A little help for those bad English listeners.
define CITIZEN
CITIZEN
persons. One who, under the constitution and laws of the United States, has a right to vote for representatives in congress, and other public officers, and who is qualified to fill offices in the gift of the people. In a more extended sense, under the word citizen, are included all white persons born in the United States, and naturalized persons born out of the same, who have not lost their right as such. This includes men, women, and children. 2. Citizens are either native born or naturalized. Native citizens may fill any office; naturalized citizens may be elected or appointed to any office under the constitution of the United States, except the office of president and vice-president. The constitution provides, that the citizens of each state shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states. Art. 4, s. 2. 3. All natives are not citizens of the United States; the descendants of the aborigines, and those of African origin, are not entitled to the rights of citizens. Anterior to the adoption of the constitution of the United States, each state had the right to make citizens of such persons as it pleased. That constitution does not authorize any but white persons to become citizens of the United States; and it must therefore be presumed that no one is a citizen who is not white. 4. A citizen of the United States, residing in any state of the Union, is a citizen of that state.
See you have to be a “white person” to be a CITIZEN