#Ferguson
I stayed up way too late last night watching events unfold in Ferguson, and doing my best to RT and signal boost.
This really is the sort of thing Twitter is best at. Reporters use it in the moment, on the ground, and it gives you the quickest snapshot of real time events.
As things settle down and narratives emerge, they'll be linked there too. And if you follow a number of people--activists, reporters, teachers, citizens--you'll get a stream of different accounts that will give you a fuller picture and more information for accurate triangulation.
Which is to say, even if you don't use twitter, you can read off the Ferguson hashtag and get a sense of what's going down in real time.
I'll be using this in my Digital Culture class. I already had other events to demonstrate the power of twitter. I didn't need another one. But I'll use it.
It's pretty much the best contribution I'm equipped to make at this time. I wish I could do more.
Also posted at http://kouredios.dreamwidth.org/261550.html ; feel free to comment there if you so choose: add comment/
comments.
This really is the sort of thing Twitter is best at. Reporters use it in the moment, on the ground, and it gives you the quickest snapshot of real time events.
As things settle down and narratives emerge, they'll be linked there too. And if you follow a number of people--activists, reporters, teachers, citizens--you'll get a stream of different accounts that will give you a fuller picture and more information for accurate triangulation.
Which is to say, even if you don't use twitter, you can read off the Ferguson hashtag and get a sense of what's going down in real time.
I'll be using this in my Digital Culture class. I already had other events to demonstrate the power of twitter. I didn't need another one. But I'll use it.
It's pretty much the best contribution I'm equipped to make at this time. I wish I could do more.
Also posted at http://kouredios.dreamwidth.org/261550.html ; feel free to comment there if you so choose: add comment/
comments.