Familiarity: is it culturally close to us in Britain?
Amplitude: is it a big event or one which involves large numbers of people?
Frequency: does the event happen fairly regularly?
Unambiguity: is it clear and definite?
Predictability: did we expect it to happen?
Surprise: is it a rare or unexpected event?
Continuity: has this story already been defined as news?
Elite nations and people: which country has the event happened in? Does the story concern well-known people?
Negativity: is it bad news?
Balance: the story may be selected to balance other news, such as a human survival story to balance a number of stories concerning death.
Immediacy: Immediacy is extremely important as people want to find out about information quickly. With citizen journalism, news can be spread a lot faster and professionals would be able to report the news with greater conviction as there are more evidence supporting their articles.
Familiarity: people are more likely to have a greater concern for issues if they directly affect the audiences or are within close proximity of the incident. With citizen journalism, audiences are able to visually see the issues in other country and may begin the prioritise their importance more.
Amplitude: the amplitudes of an event is very vital because if the amplitude is large, that means that it will affect more people and more of the audience would be interested to hear these issues. Citizen journalism allows there to be a variety of evidence from the event and despite incidents in small scale not being covered in the news, people will still have great chances about hearing of these small incidents when they are on sites that showcase these videos such as you tube.
Frequency: some news are considered more important than others as they appear more often in the news as they prove to be a great problem. Citizen journalism allows there to be a large variety of evidence to be collected.
Ambiguity: At times, news articles tend to be very unclear posing questions that are unanswered which increases the curiosity of the audience. By having citizen journalism, the journalists for institutions may be able to write a bit more accurately as they have evidence to support their article on a topic which began with not much information.
Predictability: Some news articles may be very predictable for the audience because it is either a topic that appears often or it continues from a different incident. Citizen journalism gives a different way in which audiences consume the news and adds variety to the somewhat monotonous news stories.
Surprise: News stories that have no predictability factors can cause shock for the audience causing the audience to be more intrigued by some of the news stories. Citizen journalism intensifies the audiences shock by providing visual evidence for the audience
Continuity: With some news incidents occurring over a long period of time, audiences are expecting some of the news stories. This means that even citizen journalists would be able to expect these stories and may even plan to film evidence, which might even lead to better quality citizen journalism.
Elite nations and people: Elite nations and people may, in some sense, seem untouchable. Therefore news stories about them, especially in a negative light would be very shocking for some of the audience members. Citizen journalism, further, intensifies the shock and might make the story more believable if it is one that is not a very believable incident.
Negativity: audiences seem to be more engaged with news that it very negative rather than positive as they feel like they have become more aware of the issues around them. Citizen journalism allows the audience to sympathise with those who have been negatively affected.
Balance: It is easier to balance out negative stories with a positive one through television or for tabloid newspapers as they can compliment the person for broadsheet it is much harder unless something significantly important happens such a female MP is elected or running.
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