Found an interesting site in Kairzhan’s list of sites! Called friends.kz. For me this site is a good example of Online Participatory Journalism. It’s a site mostly oriented for youth, because the content of news do not contain information about politics, economy, and different serious theames. Entertaining is the main format. The site contains news about show business, sport, stars, etc. There are such sections as “anekdotes”, “strange”, “stories”, “auto”, “games”, “useful”, “articles”, “hot news”, “friends”. All information is published on Russian and English languages.
Moreover, the site has it’s own chat and option of sending messages. The thing that I liked is that users can log in and publish their own interesting stories and put funny photos (following by certain rules). There are the list of best news and best commentators. Also this site has RSS feed. And in my point of view, all of these options only add the pluses of the site as online participatory journalism!!
Unfortunatly, I couldn’t find any information about authors, but there is written that it is non commercial site and everything is sitated, all information only to satisfy the curiosity of people.
So, as I could observe, there are a lot of regular customers on the site and many comments. As I said the community of the site is young people (teenagers)!!!
What about my impressions?? The site is good, many useful options.
Thanks, Zhanna. Glad to see you are watching other students’ sites.