UWL lecture notes

• Mobile witnessing
  7/7 London Bombing
  The Black Lives Matter Movement
• The death of Neda Aghal-Sultan
• Paris Attacks 2015
• Arab Uprising
  Key to symbosis between mainstream media and social media.
• Gaddafi
  Captured by a 'rebel'.
  Beaten to death, taken in a van.
• Ethical Considerations
  Invasion/Intrusion of privacy.
• 'BBC Media Action Campaign'
• Challenges for news reporters - producing content for different platforms
• Gives people a voice.
• Facebook and Buzzfeed investing in digital video content
• Breaking news on social media E.g. Hudson river crash, it was first tweeted
• Twitter hashtags make it easier to keep up with breaking news
• United Airlines, first on social media then news. Citizen journalism can lead to PR disasters
• Social media is useful for media outlets to find out what people think
• Social media has been a way to share what is going on but has led to problems with fake news + own agendas
• Terrorists - Has to have political agenda. Tube planned bombs, had no political agenda so did not refer to as terrorist