Role of Social Media during the Mumbai Attacks
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#mumbai Social Media in Times of Crisis
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Slideshow on the role of social media during the live-reporting of the Mumbai attacks
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#mumbaiSocial Media in Times of Crisis
Timeline of the Reporting on Social Media Sites
CBS Story on Citizen Journalism
80 tweets sent to Twitter via SMS every five seconds
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#mumbai tweets: peak of roughly 1,000/hrScreenshot courtesy of Gauvra Mishra, taken at 12:18 pm India time 11/28
streamVinu’s
Taken late night Nov 26 at Colaba. Arranged in the order I took the snaps as I visited this place - 15 mins after I heard the sound. 2 mins walking distance from my house.
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Google Map of the attack sites
Use of geo-tagging
A Question of Accuracy
“Sure, lots of Twitter messages are flat out wrong and can spread disinformation. But as Ingram notes in his blog post above, other people tend to immediately correct those errors. Bad information is quickly drowned out by good information.”
- Michael Arrington, TechCrunch
A Question of Accuracy
“Sure, lots of Twitter messages are flat out wrong and can spread disinformation. But as Ingram notes in his blog post above, other people tend to immediately correct those errors. Bad information is quickly drowned out by good information.”
- Michael Arrington, TechCrunch
"It was actually an incoherent, rumour-fueled mob operating in a mad echo chamber of tweets, re-tweets and re-re-tweets. During the hour or so I followed on Twitter there were wildly differing estimates of the numbers killed and injured - ranging up to 1,000."- Blogger Tim Mallon (Source: CNN)
A Question of Accuracy
Potential for misinformation
Amy Gahran, an editor of the Poynter Institute's E-Media Tidbits blog tracked down the original message to a Twitter
user named Mark Bao, who is a high school junior based in Boston.
Did the Indian government originate that message?
Food for Thought• What is more important in reporting:
immediacy or accuracy?
• Who/what is the media nowadays?
• How can we apply the social media lessons learned from this incident to PR?
• Does social media feed terrorists sensitive info? Could it be used as a terrorism tool???
CreditsDr. Corinne WeisgerberSt. Edward’s University
Blog: http://socialmediaprclass.blogspot.comEmail: [email protected]
Opening Slide Photo Credit: Surag (Flickr:.rGz)
