
Episode 84 • • 4:19 - 10:14
84: Jobs Justice and Climate
Twitter as a Real-Time News Source and Citizen Journalism
The discussion shifts to the evolution of Twitter from a social platform to a critical news-gathering tool. Using tools like Twitterfall and hashtag tracking, real-time data points from protests in London are analyzed, contrasting this raw data with repetitive mainstream media helicopter shots. The hosts argue that true citizen journalism is a new system of data points rather than the old newspaper model of writing stories.
