Trends of Citizen Journalism in Bangladesh

Abstract

This paper expects to investigate the pattern of resident news-casting in Bangladesh, where the opportunity of articulation is purportedly being contracted. It likewise attempts to contribute in the developing discussion on the strain between customary news-casting and resident reporting. In this time of Internet, customary news-casting has been confronting various difficulties including the ascent of resident columnists over the world just as in Bangladesh. As a rule, resident writers have made an issue to be talked about broadly and constrained the legislature to take activities in the nation. In the interim, Bangladesh has seen a fast ascent of Islamic radicalism in late time with murders of at any rate six essayists, bloggers, analysts, rights activists and distributers. Such occurrences and the administration's inability to deal with the killers prompted a developing apprehension among the resident writers that they no longer have a sense of security to practice the privileges of articulation. In addition, the administration sanctioned laws that are purportedly hampering the great acts of resident news-casting in the nation. In this setting, it is imperative to know the current situation of resident reporting in Bangladesh. To help give a few bits of knowledge into systems and elements of resident newscasting, this examination tends to follow exact inquiries: Who are the resident writers in Bangladesh? For what reason did they connect with themselves in this intentional activism? Which issues are being tended to by them? What sort of difficulties they are confronting as of now? To investigate these inquiries grounded hypothesis was chosen as examination philosophy. For information assortment, semi-organized top to bottom meetings were taken of 20 resident columnists, chosen through snowball testing strategy. It is discovered that by utilizing the web-based media stages particularly Facebook, metropolitan instructed young people connected with themselves in resident news coverage to serve the general public. A few components including the nonattendance of working popular government added to the influenced the opportunity of articulation in the nation. It was discovered that after the episodes of murders, the resident columnists either went for self-oversight or avoided composing on the issues that the radicals don't care for. Plus, the examination likewise found that the legal advances and remarks by the administration exacerbated the circumstance further as opposed to overcoming fanaticism.