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With this explosion of web 2.0, social media and other internet trends this has seen the internet grow and change in ways that where never thought possible. The essence of web 2.0 was to concentrate on user generated content, since this it has become easier for people to generate content online, via blogs, picture sharing and video sharing.

Citizen journalism with the help of mobile applications
Citizen journalism is when the public plays an important role in collecting, arranging and disseminating news and information. This is a revolutionary way that users are getting involved in the making of news worthy content and they really need specialized equipment to be able to do this whilst remaining mobile. ShoZu has this feature where it integrates with news sits to allow users to contribute their news worthy content. There are a number of news sited that ShoZu can connect and upload video text and image content.

News sites supported by ShoZu

This is empowers the users and benefits the new site in terms if content, this could also be enhanced by the integration of these news sites onto mobile phones with the help of applications like ShoZu, this is because to get news you have to be mobile.

News sites rely on a number of methods to generate content and for some time user generated content was really a small part of this, with the advent of web 2.0 there has been a shift towards newspapers valuing user generated content. This news is moderated and its life span is mostly determined by its popularity, in regards to how many votes it gets.