Both citizen journalism and cyber technology can certainly raise global awareness. One of the reason is that sometimes certain events can occur suddenly. By the time it is shown on television certain information might already have been lost. This would lead to some events being portrayed by media as less significant and at times they might not even show up on the news. Thus citizen journalism plays a key in making people aware of the occurrence of these events. Since usually the people that witness the event is the ones that happen to be there at that time.
Thus cyber technology also plays a key in raising global awareness. With the capabilities of technology through the usage of cell phone and laptops, people are able to capture videos or pictures of the events that occurred. Sometimes these videos are posted on youtube or other social sites, where it becomes available to everyone. The news might spread through people that have viewed it on these social sites, and have told their friends about it. Thus this process sometimes spreads news faster than if you were to read it on a newspaper the next day. And certain news that the media have taught to be less significant previously might suddenly become significant after an increase in global awareness.
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