About the Team
Media Matters for Democracy was founded by a group of journalists geared towards media development and digital rights in Dec 2014. Over the years, after a number of likeminded individuals came on board, we have now become a team of journalists, activists, techies, designers, researchers, and lawyers striving together for a progressive media, communications, and digital spaces.
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I use social media to get updated from latest development but not for any journlaistsic purpose.
Yes, social media does effectively for journalists.
yes i do use it for my journalistic work
yes I use social media for journalistic work.
Yes I do use the social media network for my journalistic works. Even I post daily basis news and updates on Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, etc. Even social media is a big source of news gathering nowadays. Despite the fact of disinformation social media still consider to be the best and prompt news gathering platform. Particularly if I talk about WhatsApp which is undoubtedly playing a pivotal role to get news through the different news groups. As mentioned earlier disinformation also keeps flowing along with the information in these whatsapp groups either but still the importance of these group cannot be denied.
Besides that Twitter is unavoidably another big news gathering platform where all the world leaders, governments, organizations, media conglomerates, public and private companies, and personalities are available. All the above segments of the society give priority for conveying their important messages or updates through twitter. The question is why? In my opinion for two reasons, one is easily accessible to the global audience and two is for their own convenience, rather than calling is communique it is quite easy disseminate the information within seconds just by sitting in the work or home places.
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جی ہاں آج کے جدید دور میں تقریباً تمام جرنلسٹ ھی خبروں تک رسائی کے لیے سوشل میڈیا استعمال کرتے ہیں
Yes, use of social media for journalism is the depend of time. I also use social media for journalism.
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I check twitter now and then to check first hand narrative of stake holders on any recent event i.e for present condition in Afghanistan.
جی ہاں بالکل سوشل میڈیا کا استعمال کرتے بلکہ اب تو اس کا استعمال بہت زیادہ بڑھ گیا ہے جس طرح استعمال بڑھا ہے اس طرح جھوٹی خبروں
کی بھر مار کی وجہ سے مشکلات میں بھی اضافہ ہوا ہے۔
I do, for initial information, testimonies, gathering data, documents and other purposes. Sometimes Social Media platforms information which is hard to gather.
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Yes,I do use social media for gathering and dessemenating news ,as now a days so many journalst spread news through whatsapp groups and personally and i also noticed that sometimes journalists without doing double check and investigating the matter they rely on the availble news.
Yes, in some extent
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جی روزانہ کے بنیاد پر استعمال کرتے ہیں اور اکثر خبروں کو کنفرم کرنے کیلئے بھی اکثر اوقات سوشل میڈیا کا استعمال کرنا پڑتاہے۔
Yes,in this digital world social media is one of major source of news gathering. However, unfortunately some people are using this platform only for fun and irresponsibility manner due to which the information, the contents are not reliable and creating confusion and misunderstanding.this is a dire of creating awareness among people for use of social sites with responsible manner.
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