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Where’s the Beef? Web 2.0 Emerging as Powerful Tool for Protestors

Posted in Korea, Web 2.0, article, blogs, citizen journalism on Tuesday, 17 June 2008, 2:53 pm | Leave a Comment »

Check out this interesting article in today’s International Herald Tribune, on how a protest (against import to South Korea of perceived un-safe U.S. beef) initially ignored by traditional media, snowballed after being covered by citizen journalists on Web 2.0 sites. This article dovetails with another article on Wired (“Media Death March: Newspaper Ads Tumble”) reporting [...]

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Good blog post on “citizen journalism” coverage of Chengdu earthquake

Posted in CNN, Chengdu, China, Sichuan, Web 2.0, citizen journalism, crowd sourcing, earthquake, user-generated content on Wednesday, 4 June 2008, 10:32 am | Leave a Comment »

The Barking at the Sun/蜀犬吠日 blog (“Blogging from China, Sichuan, Chengdu. 中国. 四川. 成都”) has a good post in English by Mark Hiew on “Big media, citizen journalists, and the May 12th earthquake”. Web 2.0 aiding coverage of this terrible tragedy.

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