Vatandaş Gazeteciliği İnsan Doğası ile Uyuşmazlık

Abstract

Sıradan internet kullanıcılarının haber sunumunda aktif rol almasına dayanan vatandaş gazeteciliği hızla büyümekle beraber, üniversitelerde yıllar boyunca öğretilen temel gazetecilik kavramlarını da ihlal etmektedir. Son birkaç yılda, kendine “eğlence” arayan, zarar vermek isteyen, erken davranan ya da komplo teorilerine kaptıran sayısız vatandaş tarafından ortaya konulmuş, habercilik etiğinden yoksun, hatalı, taraflı ve subjektif pek çok çalışmaya tanık olduk. Ancak vatandaş gazeteciliğini tehlikeli kılan yalnızca hatalı yapılan habercilik değil, bir o kadar da bilgiyi doğru işlemekte başarısız olan insan doğasıdır; evrimin sonucu olarak kötü haberlere öncelik veren beynimiz, yeni bir bilgiye ulaşana kadar bildiğimizin doğruluğuna olan inancımız, kendimizi geliştirecek bilgidense, inandığımızı doğrulayacak bilgiye yönelişimiz...

Keywords

• Vatandaş Gazeteciliği, Habercilik, Bilgi Edinme

Citizen Journalism Incompatable With Human Nature

Abstract

Citizen journalism, a rapidly growing concept based on random individuals actively taking part in reporting news, violates the basics of news literacy those have been thought in journalism schools for decades. Citizen journalists lacking of objectivity and journalistic ethics lead to countless inaccurate, biased and subjective reporting done by people who either want to have a little “fun”, intent to cause damage, jump the gun or seeking conspiracy theories. However, what makes citizen journalism dangerous is not only the journalism done wrong but also the human nature that fail processing information thoroughly; our brain, as the result of evolution, leading us to seek for bad news, our instant belief in information we gather is correct until something more convincing challenges that particular knowledge and the way we collect information not to enlighten ourselves but to confirm what we think we know is true.

Keywords

• Citizen Journalism, News Literacy, Reporting, Information

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