Monday, 21 October 2013

Woolwich attack

Example of Woolwich attack news press by BBC News..

Blog about the aftermath of Woolwich attack: http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2013/05/the-woolwich-attack-the-aftermath/

The images below show an example of citizen journalism. These are the tweets from someone who was at the scene, and was tweeting throughout.

A UK rapper whose tweets were used to help piece together the gruesome timeline of events in Woolwich yesterday afternoon (May 22), has refused to cash in on his exclusive eye-witness account.

Nu Brand Flexxx's Boya Dee claims he has turned down up to £75k from news outlets eager to hear his detailed fist-hand account about the killing of a serving British solider at the hands of two men claiming to have carried out the attack in the name of Islam. (From Voice-online newspaper)

Local MC gets 20,000 followers as he recounts murder and police response in street slang
Read more: http://www.theweek.co.uk/uk-news/woolwich-attack/53191/woolwich-attack-boya-dee-tweets-viral-rapper#ixzz2iAqj7riQ

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tag/woolwich-attack/ This is a link, where you can see blog entries written by members of the Telegraph media team.

This is a YouTube video, of someones response to the media reaction to the Woolwich attack http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU9QBX4U9qE

Headline of The Drum newspaper: Woolwich terrorism killing coverage a watershed moment for citizen journalism and mainstream media
Read more at http://www.thedrum.com/opinion/2013/05/22/woolwich-terrorism-killing-coverage-watershed-moment-citizen-journalism-and#YzppkwoDMOLwB64e.99

The International Socialist gave statistics of the use of Facebook after a tweet made by EDL

EnglishDefenceLeague (@Official_EDL)
22/05/2013 17:43 **CONFIRMED WE HAVE BEEN SUBJECT TO A TERROR ATTACK BY ISLAM, WE ARE CURRENTLY UNDER ATTACK As a result of the EDL’s ability to capture the Twitter-sphere in the immediate aftermath of the attack, the #EDL hastag dominated Twitter last night, and has sustained a continued presence in the Top 10** Trending terms today.

What appears to be most disturbing is that the number of supporters of the EDL Facebook page has exploded exponentially – from around 25,000 to just above 85,000 today. As of today, 50,000 new people will be receiving regular messages from the EDL into their Facebook news feed. - See more at: http://internationalsocialist.org.uk/index.php/2013/05/how-the-far-right-are-using-twitter-edl-and-the-woolwich-attacks/#sthash.mNjJWUlO.dpuf

One of the perhaps most unlikely sources of this outrage at the EDL’s response came from the London-born rapper Professor Green, whose post was Re-Tweeted over 6000 times – far eclipsing the EDL’s most “popular” post last night:

Professor Green (@professorgreen)
22/05/2013 23:16 why are idiots running around attacking mosques? why are edl supporters taking to the streets? to kill more innocent people?

Woolwich mentioned 449,360 times on Twitter in 24 hours following attack

Following the murder of Lee Rigby at Woolwich on Wednesday, ‘Woolwich’ was mentioned almost half a million on Twitter in the 24 hours that followed, research from social media intelligence company NetBase has found.

The research, carried out for The Drum, discovered that the conversation peaked at about 4pm GMT on Wednesday, 22 May.

This was followed by another drive between 6am and midday on 23 May, as more information was revealed.

NetBase found that 67 per cent of the sentiment on Twitter was negative, as the mentions included murder, attacks, riots and terrorism, while 23 per cent were positive.

Tuesday, 15 October 2013

Boston bombings

Article from BBC News, showing a video recording from the Boston Marathon bombings. It seems as though the video recording has been slowed down, most likely so that audience can see more clearly what happened.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22160826

Another article which shows the recording of a reported filming the incident. It has been edited with a narration over the top to explain the story of his situation.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22160243

This is a blog of one of the Marathon runners of whom explains her experience after just finishing the race, then hearing the explosion.
http://mileswithstyle.com/2013/04/15/post-boston-thoughts/

Tweets from News media teams:

1. Reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Lisa Fleisher
  
  tweets a picture of newspaper front pages at her hotel in Boston.
2. Cameraman at @wfsbnews, Kevin Michael
  
  tweets: Just watched Heavilly armed swat teams and a brigade of #Boston Police fly by Boston Common w rifles drawn out of their vehicles.
3. Broadcaster at @NECN, Justin Michaels
  
  tweets: We're live down here, roads closed everywhere, @ronallennbc. Copley Square driving near impossible.
Runners amateur video
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/15/boston-marathon-bombing-photos_n_3087332.html?utm_hp_ref=boston-marathon-bombing

Real footage from Boston Marathon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=046MuD1pYJg&bpctr=1381852059

Image from a blog:

Friday, 4 October 2013

Making and Connecting

http://www.theory.org.uk/david/makeandconnect.htm

Quotes from David Gauntlett- Making and Connecting.

- LEGO theory.

'People want to make the World their own'

'People want to make their mark on the World'

'People want to be social'

'People want to make connections'

'Creativity...needs to be channelled, needs tools'

Creativity + tools = making things

Making things...sharing things

Originally a 'sit back and be told culture', TV was part of this spec.

Now a 'making and doing culture'

Networks of 'making and doing'

Artist whose career was promoted throgh the Internet... Carly Rae Jepson.

Carly Rae Jepson was initally known for coming in third position in Canadian Idol. Three years later she released a single called 'Call Me Maybe', this was promoted to global audiences through the use of Youtube. But also celebrities of whom have large fan bases such as Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Ashley Tisdale etc made a video of themselves lisping the song which bought world wide attention. The video they made reached 400million views. In February 2000 Justin Bieber referred Carly to his manager Scooter Braun who signed her to Schoolboy Records. The single reached number on US Billboard and Canadian Hot 100.