“Your job is to verify the information that looks useful. As with all the other information you gather, you can verify lots of different ways, and no single technique works for everything.”
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Peter Horrocks: “Social media engagement, with the increasing use of mobile technology, Twitter, Facebook, Skype, means that ordinary people now have the ability to break news faster than journalists and file the first pictures when an event happens. ... They are performing much of the role that in the past only powerful media organisations could.”
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Intro: "Social media include MySpace, Orkut, Friendster, Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp, YouTube, and many more. Sites where information is loosely shared (such as Delicious.com and Flickr.com) can also be considered social media ..."
This 7-page Google Doc provides a +quick cheat sheet+ for journalism educators on three closely related topics: social media, citizen journalism, and media curators. Delete the scoop?
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Una buena guía con sugerencias para verificar los tweets