Social Mapping Network Launches Human Atlas Using ‘Earth as a Platform’
Today, a social mapping network launches its human atlas for users to share their feelings and observations on global events to...
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No more notepads: new tech is making journalists’ lives easier
As newsroom jobs decline, we analyze the main problems facing modern journalists, and how new technology is lightening the load. Amit...
Why citizen journalism apps are needed to combat corporate media bias
Citizen journalism is needed now more than as the latest announcement from WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange exposes mainstream media bias on...
7 Moroccan journalists on trial for advocating citizen journalism via smartphones
Seven journalists in Morocco are on trial today for training civilians to use a foreign-funded smartphone app for citizen journalism. The...
CNN’s first iReport citizen journalist award nominees announced
CNN announced the nominations for its first awards programme to honour citizen reporters and participatory journalists, the iReport Awards, today. CNN’s iReport Awards, to be held in early March, will be given to CNN iReporters who have produced “the best examples of participatory journalism in 2010.”
A year in review, the global news perspective on 2010 [Video]
In 2010 over 25 billion Tweets were sent and about 9 billion emails were exchanged. We watch 700 billion videos on Youtube, that is about 13 million hours or the equivalent of 1,500 years of continuous viewing (We hope you like piano playing cats). At year’s end it is natural to look back, to review the dying year and take stock of what has happened. This is what the world’s media has been doing this week, so join us on The Sociable’s review of the reviews of 2010.
Follow the #studentmarch protests live on The Sociable
As we reported earlier Irish students have been live tweeting their Dublin protests using the hastag #studentmarch. You can follow the reaction below using our live Twitter feed. (Feed will auto update)
Students use Twitter to report on the #studentmarch
As the #studentmarch in Dublin today turned violent, news reports from citizen journalists at the protest came flooding in on Twitter. This is one of those occasions that Twitter, as a live blogging tool, becomes extremely useful.
