Reflection on People Media

People media is all about the involvement of people in media. They are being used as media and as a media.
People media refers to the persons that are involved in the use, analysis, evaluation and production of Media and Information. There are two types of people media. The people as media and the people in media. People as media are people who are well-oriented to media sources and messages and able to provide information as reliable and accurate as possible. People in media are media practitioners who provide information coming from their expert knowledge or first-hand experience of event. People media acts as media itself. They are the people who give and/or share information to other people for them to have new knowledge. Example of people as media are opinion leaders, citizen journalism, social journalism and crowd sourcing. People in media are those who control media. These are people behind any forms of media—such as ads, videos, etc—that access information and acquire new knowledge. They provide information coming from their expert knowledge or first-hand experience of events. Example of people in media are print journalists, photo journalists, broadcast journalists and media journalists.