Citizen Journalism via Twitter Global power
Recent attacks at Mumbai have splurged talk of information-age aided citizen journalism this week on NPR’ s “On The Media”. Citizen’s used Twitter and Flickr to report breaking news as the events unfolded, and for some was their only source of information. Very organized restraint and professional journalistic conduct came out of the mass twittering, as the mainstream news channels in India aired what some are accusing as ‘too much sensitive information’ that may have aided the terrorists. I am exited to see ‘new media’ and a simple twitter feed aiding and taking a role with ‘mainstream media’, especially after I just read an article yesterday that discredited Twitter as a declining fad.