User-generated content can spark harsh sneers from journalists, journalists who consider the material worthless and biased. However, Singapore Press Holdings’ online media project, Straits Times Online Multimedia Print (STOMP) has proved user-generated content to be extremely influential on society.
Within half a year after STOMP was launched “it was attracting 300,000 unique visitors a year”. STOMP’s popularity is increasing as it reports stories that would not be reported in national newspapers. For example, a citizen took a photograph of a woman whose boyfriend pushed her onto a train track; STOMP published the photograph and it was used as evidence to arrest the man for attempted murder. If an illegal event takes place it is almost assumed somebody with a mobile phone camera or video will record the situation.
Examples of this has occurred in Australia, with students capturing bullying incidents on their mobiles and leaking it to the media, user-generated content has a lot more uses other than the journalistic side, there is the legal side as well.
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Examples of this has occurred in Australia, with students capturing bullying incidents on their mobiles and leaking it to the media, user-generated content has a lot more uses other than the journalistic side, there is the legal side as well.
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Quinn, S. 2007, ‘Straits Times Online Multimedia Print (STOMP)’, in Innovations in Newspapers.
