[Applause]
well I’m not a journalist I’m just a
citizen and I’m here this afternoon to
talk to you about citizen journalism
citizen journalism my traditional
upbringing tells me amongst many other
things that it is important to have the
right definition in life when things are
ill-defined they get you confined and so
I’m going to be doing with a lot of
definitions or a bits and pieces of
definitions the first thing I want to
define is just my topic what is citizen
journalism very simply put by reason of
origin citizen journalism was founded by
two men are two different times in
history in 1964 and in 1991 and they did
it separately however this was what
happened and I’d like you to listen to
this because it’s key to what citizen
journalism is all about they witnessed a
situation life they witnessed it life
they were not told it they’d interpret
from anywhere the witnessed it live and
recorded it and eventually transmitted
it if you like
one of them sold it so that was the
origin of what we call citizen
journalism
however the narrative has changed today
whereas at that time the prevalence of
internet was not there they had to sell
to mainstream journalism to mainstream
media houses now watch this these two
men who poniard citizen journalism never
at any time we are employees of a
mainstream media house which means if
you like today we call them freelance
they never had any employment in any
place so what citizen journalism has
tried to do for us is to liberalize the
space for media and communication it
means that everybody can go in provided
you have your mobile phone some data and
of course you have contents
citizen journalism permit me to say is
the alternative verse that makes a
consumer you and I to become a producer
not just a producer but also a
disseminator of information
ladies and gentlemen that practical is
what citizen journalism is all about as
I consider citizen journalism for things
drop into my mind because it presents
enormous opportunities for everybody
number one it helps you or gives you the
opportunity to lend a voice or become a
voice to the voiceless number two it
helps us as citizens to enter into a
space that is usually or was called an
exclusive preserve there are stories in
the media trust me that are healed k i
double-l
d i used to think that you only kill
animals i used to think that when you
are very crude you kill human beings too
but I know enough to tell you this
afternoon that stories are killed so we
are being manipulated by the mainstream
media is what they want you to know that
you know is what they want you to hear
that you hear so citizen journalism has
come to break that meat such that you
can witness a situation life and report
it instanter or please take my advice
don’t do it at the risk of your life
what else do I learn from this I’ve
learned that citizen journalism taught
us all of us in this room and many
others who are not here an opportunity
also to tell our own story Chimamanda
Adichie it was who said or popularized
the term the danger of a single story I
was somewhere in the last few weeks back
and somebody confronted me with the
reverse that I have stayed in for close
to 30 years and confronted me with
information arise
that was not valid and I knew that for
the most part that information was saved
from social media and I had to correct
that impression can I submit to you
because I know you already know that
there are a lot of information that
people give a lot of information that
people offer that unverified are and are
untrue so citizen journalism approach
you the opportunity to retell or to
recast the narrative now there are lost
to citizen journalism it’s a
free-for-all number one law that you
need to understand is the fact that
there are ethics to the profession that
you are entering into it is a
journalistic profession there are ethics
to it can I go on and tell you what is
ethics are can I go on and tell you the
things that you need to know to produce
good information and to have a
followership or its right that is
following you the first thing you need
to know is see the second one is an
arrow and the third one is a see what
does the First Sea mean the first see
ladies and gentlemen means that you must
have content you must have content
content is key in journalism
what is your content what are you
pushing out as information to people to
listen to why should people listen to
you anyway as a dealer in content I can
tell you this over and again that if you
don’t have content chances are nobody
reads you and please let me advise if
you don’t have content don’t go into
blogging the next thing is that when you
have the content your content must be
relevant
ask yourself how really want is my
content what problem is this content
going to solve what what solution isn’t
going to bring to the table of those
that are going to read it the third one
is very important you must have a clan
your content was irrelevant to the clan
that you are 72 permit me to Peru from
every other speaker today you must have
a community
you must have a try
that you appeal to that needs what you
have so see ROC is the name of the game
you must have contents number one number
two your content must be relevant and
number three your content must be what
was the world must be targeted towards a
clan don’t try to be a generalist when
it comes to citizen journalism the next
thing I want to tell you about my
friends is the fact that citizen
journalism insist on a tool there is a
tool to citizen journalism because of
time I’ll just turn it down to just two
number one is words the authorized
pictures and please listen to this very
well because you’ll enjoy it I define
words by the way I did work twice I
don’t know if they still do that way I
did it twice and I got a fantastic f9 in
mathematics twice I think they were
generals because there is nothing beyond
f9 so that’s why they gave it to me the
second time if there was something
beyond that I know I would have reached
like f15 or they are about you know I
was deceiving myself as a young boy in
secondary school I was imitating my
friends I wanted to be a science student
ago it was fashionable at that time you
carry a lot of big books physics
chemistry biology they call it in my
time she can bow now if it can power
almost bought me out of secondary school
before I graduated trust me I was having
those big books until I got to class one
I taught myself or talk to yourself and
I talked to myself and I dropped three
Kempo and I picked literature so I made
aligned words I made aligned words I
love words and I define words like this
weds
us key words they run your errands one
man said thank you thank you
one man said the mind is not conquered
by weapons but by words I believe it
words are powerful you don’t toy with
them you don’t joke with them you don’t
use them inadvertently you use them
responsibly
where can inflame words can’t offend so
you must use words
responsibly talking about words that
I’ve found that the way that people have
deployed them on social media as
wannabes if you like citizen journalists
are founded especially in particular
reference to reverse it that when you go
on social media words are used in a
manner that suggests to me the people
are saying that citizen journalism is as
easy as a B C it’s not my friends
journalism is work and I guess he had
work what does ABC mean if you ask me
the EDS stands for us epic the P stands
for politic and of course assistants was
cynical can I explain those things in
the next few minutes before I take my
seat a sceptic wait very hush there is
severe you fling with anyhow at anybody
found that people do not respect they
don’t have traditional respect anymore
like we used to but I told myself and I
want to recommend to you that nothing
globalization will not make me lose my
traditional way of respect for senior
citizens I told myself and I keep to it
that I must always genuflect before how
we hate because one day I want one
person one tie to also genuflect before
me but I’ve read and it saddens my heart
when I see people train with young
people throwing weights at elders on the
pages of social media by reason of
comment or by reason of whatever divide
they belong to so I’ve seen people use
as Sebek words and I’m saying to you in
case you are they in this house it’s
what your own good is for your own
safety
let your wits not be a saving the next
one ladies and gentlemen because of time
is ballistic just like it sounds that’s
the way it is it comes without notice I
hit you where a bite wants to hit you
it’s politics that was flinging it into
the air and is so infectious and you
don’t care whose emotions you have
damaged you don’t care whose reputation
you are damaged my friends as we listen
up today and we interact with ourselves
I like to appeal to you stop using
ballistic words of course cynical see
cynical words are words that are are
used without investigation you just want
to disparage a particular person you
want to disparage a tribe I sat back
there and I had somebody say why sexism
everywhere this war against women why
because somebody used in setting what I
referred it to women now you don’t do
that you are very very careful in the
way you deploy words words created
everything that we we appreciate here
today words created you and are so you
don’t toy with words you use them
rightly can I go on to tell you my
friends that I’ve looked at the space
the social media space and I came to one
conclusion that there is a way to deploy
weights and now use the acronym one more
time so that you don’t forget it is wo
aro D and every time anybody you know
uses a ballistic word you can’t guess
what go to the person and that’s the
person why do you use those kind of
ballistic words chances are the person
will stone type it arranging serve
showed us some more and say look I’m not
like everybody I tell it as it is black
is black white is white I speak my mind
can I counsel you a bit you have the
right to speak your mind but you have
the discretion to mind your speech
thank you as I close this is how I think
we should use widths I I make this as a
recommendation wo are ODS the W stands
for which is ISM your words must be
witty and play witty aphorisms
for me a witty language it’s like what
fashionistas tell you when they say you
can’t go wrong with your black a black
matches anything everytime you use which
you become an interesting person for
anybody to read people look forward to
your next write up as a citizen
journalists oh your words that you use
the words that you employ most reek of
optimism be optimistic we are too
pessimistic in this country that we are
branded this country the wrong way you
want to approach any Airport anywhere
you have a green Passport
special treatment just go outside you
are a suspect
even without committing any crime all
your words must be well researched your
words must be well researched your
information must be well researched
don’t hear from somebody who heard from
somebody on throw it into the social
media space listen we take things easy
in the spots will hear me globalization
is changing the pace of everything that
very soon somebody who throws words
inadvertently anyhow on social media
space will be sued
it’s called libel and I’ll tell you a
story as I close so that you understand
better where are we now dee dee now when
I look at the I love it so much dee
talks about the deployment of your words
there is what we call opposite word
maybe you call it nearest in meaning
with an opposite word the
we the the precise word you should use
under the circumstance
it may sound alike what it does not mean
the same thing finally s you must be so
true your use of language let it be seen
s in the way you communicate especially
on social media it’s depressing I don’t
want to go into reverse this situation I
don’t want to go into the media space in
River State but every time I look in
there my friends I showed up for the
next generation and I tell somebody I
said you think this men are wrong I
think our generation whipper was if you
can use language anyhow on people then
we are in for some other discussion I
caught with this story ladies and
gentlemen is the story of a young man
call him citizen theta is a fictional
story there was this widow who had an
only child a daughter this widow one day
woke up and discovered that this child
an only child was pregnant who would
have done this
nobody knew citizen pizza was a neighbor
of this video what is it is in pita do
citizen pita took the issue upon himself
and immediately thought about how to
make money through this means walked up
to the lady and said to her I suspect is
John the son of that Richmond see what
we’ll do we will throw him to court
before citizen Peter who put himself
together
to get a lawyer he’s plastered on social
media space and this rich man saw it and
suits it is in Peter and the widow at
the same time got a long story short for
the ladies and gentlemen today they are
in court and the Panthers are going on
trust the Richmond he hired a son and
the son went on you know the way lawyers
do it I put it to you that you came here
for peace leads
this honorable court I put it to you
that you have done so I put it at that
point this poor widow who could not take
it anymore raise their hand since she
had no lawyer
the magistrate obliged her and she
raised her hand and she said I got
magistrate
I’ve been sitting down here listening to
everything that is happening it’s my
daughter that he impregnated I’ve been
hearing lawyer saying I put it I put it
magistrate magistrate he one day put
before they are now removed and they are
putting and putting another one ladies
and gentlemen I put it to you you have
been a very wonderful audience thank you
for your kind attention
[Applause]
you
[Applause]
well I’m not a journalist I’m just a
citizen and I’m here this afternoon to
talk to you about citizen journalism
citizen journalism my traditional
upbringing tells me amongst many other
things that it is important to have the
right definition in life when things are
ill-defined they get you confined and so
I’m going to be doing with a lot of
definitions or a bits and pieces of
definitions the first thing I want to
define is just my topic what is citizen
journalism very simply put by reason of
origin citizen journalism was founded by
two men are two different times in
history in 1964 and in 1991 and they did
it separately however this was what
happened and I’d like you to listen to
this because it’s key to what citizen
journalism is all about they witnessed a
situation life they witnessed it life
they were not told it they’d interpret
from anywhere the witnessed it live and
recorded it and eventually transmitted
it if you like
one of them sold it so that was the
origin of what we call citizen
journalism
however the narrative has changed today
whereas at that time the prevalence of
internet was not there they had to sell
to mainstream journalism to mainstream
media houses now watch this these two
men who poniard citizen journalism never
at any time we are employees of a
mainstream media house which means if
you like today we call them freelance
they never had any employment in any
place so what citizen journalism has
tried to do for us is to liberalize the
space for media and communication it
means that everybody can go in provided
you have your mobile phone some data and
of course you have contents
citizen journalism permit me to say is
the alternative verse that makes a
consumer you and I to become a producer
not just a producer but also a
disseminator of information
ladies and gentlemen that practical is
what citizen journalism is all about as
I consider citizen journalism for things
drop into my mind because it presents
enormous opportunities for everybody
number one it helps you or gives you the
opportunity to lend a voice or become a
voice to the voiceless number two it
helps us as citizens to enter into a
space that is usually or was called an
exclusive preserve there are stories in
the media trust me that are healed k i
double-l
d i used to think that you only kill
animals i used to think that when you
are very crude you kill human beings too
but I know enough to tell you this
afternoon that stories are killed so we
are being manipulated by the mainstream
media is what they want you to know that
you know is what they want you to hear
that you hear so citizen journalism has
come to break that meat such that you
can witness a situation life and report
it instanter or please take my advice
don’t do it at the risk of your life
what else do I learn from this I’ve
learned that citizen journalism taught
us all of us in this room and many
others who are not here an opportunity
also to tell our own story Chimamanda
Adichie it was who said or popularized
the term the danger of a single story I
was somewhere in the last few weeks back
and somebody confronted me with the
reverse that I have stayed in for close
to 30 years and confronted me with
information arise
that was not valid and I knew that for
the most part that information was saved
from social media and I had to correct
that impression can I submit to you
because I know you already know that
there are a lot of information that
people give a lot of information that
people offer that unverified are and are
untrue so citizen journalism approach
you the opportunity to retell or to
recast the narrative now there are lost
to citizen journalism it’s a
free-for-all number one law that you
need to understand is the fact that
there are ethics to the profession that
you are entering into it is a
journalistic profession there are ethics
to it can I go on and tell you what is
ethics are can I go on and tell you the
things that you need to know to produce
good information and to have a
followership or its right that is
following you the first thing you need
to know is see the second one is an
arrow and the third one is a see what
does the First Sea mean the first see
ladies and gentlemen means that you must
have content you must have content
content is key in journalism
what is your content what are you
pushing out as information to people to
listen to why should people listen to
you anyway as a dealer in content I can
tell you this over and again that if you
don’t have content chances are nobody
reads you and please let me advise if
you don’t have content don’t go into
blogging the next thing is that when you
have the content your content must be
relevant
ask yourself how really want is my
content what problem is this content
going to solve what what solution isn’t
going to bring to the table of those
that are going to read it the third one
is very important you must have a clan
your content was irrelevant to the clan
that you are 72 permit me to Peru from
every other speaker today you must have
a community
you must have a try
that you appeal to that needs what you
have so see ROC is the name of the game
you must have contents number one number
two your content must be relevant and
number three your content must be what
was the world must be targeted towards a
clan don’t try to be a generalist when
it comes to citizen journalism the next
thing I want to tell you about my
friends is the fact that citizen
journalism insist on a tool there is a
tool to citizen journalism because of
time I’ll just turn it down to just two
number one is words the authorized
pictures and please listen to this very
well because you’ll enjoy it I define
words by the way I did work twice I
don’t know if they still do that way I
did it twice and I got a fantastic f9 in
mathematics twice I think they were
generals because there is nothing beyond
f9 so that’s why they gave it to me the
second time if there was something
beyond that I know I would have reached
like f15 or they are about you know I
was deceiving myself as a young boy in
secondary school I was imitating my
friends I wanted to be a science student
ago it was fashionable at that time you
carry a lot of big books physics
chemistry biology they call it in my
time she can bow now if it can power
almost bought me out of secondary school
before I graduated trust me I was having
those big books until I got to class one
I taught myself or talk to yourself and
I talked to myself and I dropped three
Kempo and I picked literature so I made
aligned words I made aligned words I
love words and I define words like this
weds
us key words they run your errands one
man said thank you thank you
one man said the mind is not conquered
by weapons but by words I believe it
words are powerful you don’t toy with
them you don’t joke with them you don’t
use them inadvertently you use them
responsibly
where can inflame words can’t offend so
you must use words
responsibly talking about words that
I’ve found that the way that people have
deployed them on social media as
wannabes if you like citizen journalists
are founded especially in particular
reference to reverse it that when you go
on social media words are used in a
manner that suggests to me the people
are saying that citizen journalism is as
easy as a B C it’s not my friends
journalism is work and I guess he had
work what does ABC mean if you ask me
the EDS stands for us epic the P stands
for politic and of course assistants was
cynical can I explain those things in
the next few minutes before I take my
seat a sceptic wait very hush there is
severe you fling with anyhow at anybody
found that people do not respect they
don’t have traditional respect anymore
like we used to but I told myself and I
want to recommend to you that nothing
globalization will not make me lose my
traditional way of respect for senior
citizens I told myself and I keep to it
that I must always genuflect before how
we hate because one day I want one
person one tie to also genuflect before
me but I’ve read and it saddens my heart
when I see people train with young
people throwing weights at elders on the
pages of social media by reason of
comment or by reason of whatever divide
they belong to so I’ve seen people use
as Sebek words and I’m saying to you in
case you are they in this house it’s
what your own good is for your own
safety
let your wits not be a saving the next
one ladies and gentlemen because of time
is ballistic just like it sounds that’s
the way it is it comes without notice I
hit you where a bite wants to hit you
it’s politics that was flinging it into
the air and is so infectious and you
don’t care whose emotions you have
damaged you don’t care whose reputation
you are damaged my friends as we listen
up today and we interact with ourselves
I like to appeal to you stop using
ballistic words of course cynical see
cynical words are words that are are
used without investigation you just want
to disparage a particular person you
want to disparage a tribe I sat back
there and I had somebody say why sexism
everywhere this war against women why
because somebody used in setting what I
referred it to women now you don’t do
that you are very very careful in the
way you deploy words words created
everything that we we appreciate here
today words created you and are so you
don’t toy with words you use them
rightly can I go on to tell you my
friends that I’ve looked at the space
the social media space and I came to one
conclusion that there is a way to deploy
weights and now use the acronym one more
time so that you don’t forget it is wo
aro D and every time anybody you know
uses a ballistic word you can’t guess
what go to the person and that’s the
person why do you use those kind of
ballistic words chances are the person
will stone type it arranging serve
showed us some more and say look I’m not
like everybody I tell it as it is black
is black white is white I speak my mind
can I counsel you a bit you have the
right to speak your mind but you have
the discretion to mind your speech
thank you as I close this is how I think
we should use widths I I make this as a
recommendation wo are ODS the W stands
for which is ISM your words must be
witty and play witty aphorisms
for me a witty language it’s like what
fashionistas tell you when they say you
can’t go wrong with your black a black
matches anything everytime you use which
you become an interesting person for
anybody to read people look forward to
your next write up as a citizen
journalists oh your words that you use
the words that you employ most reek of
optimism be optimistic we are too
pessimistic in this country that we are
branded this country the wrong way you
want to approach any Airport anywhere
you have a green Passport
special treatment just go outside you
are a suspect
even without committing any crime all
your words must be well researched your
words must be well researched your
information must be well researched
don’t hear from somebody who heard from
somebody on throw it into the social
media space listen we take things easy
in the spots will hear me globalization
is changing the pace of everything that
very soon somebody who throws words
inadvertently anyhow on social media
space will be sued
it’s called libel and I’ll tell you a
story as I close so that you understand
better where are we now dee dee now when
I look at the I love it so much dee
talks about the deployment of your words
there is what we call opposite word
maybe you call it nearest in meaning
with an opposite word the
we the the precise word you should use
under the circumstance
it may sound alike what it does not mean
the same thing finally s you must be so
true your use of language let it be seen
s in the way you communicate especially
on social media it’s depressing I don’t
want to go into reverse this situation I
don’t want to go into the media space in
River State but every time I look in
there my friends I showed up for the
next generation and I tell somebody I
said you think this men are wrong I
think our generation whipper was if you
can use language anyhow on people then
we are in for some other discussion I
caught with this story ladies and
gentlemen is the story of a young man
call him citizen theta is a fictional
story there was this widow who had an
only child a daughter this widow one day
woke up and discovered that this child
an only child was pregnant who would
have done this
nobody knew citizen pizza was a neighbor
of this video what is it is in pita do
citizen pita took the issue upon himself
and immediately thought about how to
make money through this means walked up
to the lady and said to her I suspect is
John the son of that Richmond see what
we’ll do we will throw him to court
before citizen Peter who put himself
together
to get a lawyer he’s plastered on social
media space and this rich man saw it and
suits it is in Peter and the widow at
the same time got a long story short for
the ladies and gentlemen today they are
in court and the Panthers are going on
trust the Richmond he hired a son and
the son went on you know the way lawyers
do it I put it to you that you came here
for peace leads
this honorable court I put it to you
that you have done so I put it at that
point this poor widow who could not take
it anymore raise their hand since she
had no lawyer
the magistrate obliged her and she
raised her hand and she said I got
magistrate
I’ve been sitting down here listening to
everything that is happening it’s my
daughter that he impregnated I’ve been
hearing lawyer saying I put it I put it
magistrate magistrate he one day put
before they are now removed and they are
putting and putting another one ladies
and gentlemen I put it to you you have
been a very wonderful audience thank you
for your kind attention
[Applause]
you
[Applause]
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