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The news about the earthquakes in China broke on Twitter. How is the modern media landscape affecting humanitarian crisis?
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SXSW Panel, March 17th, 2009
@alexdcalexdc.org
StartPR.com
Digital Tsunami: Breaking News at Breakneck Speeds
Alex de Carvalho
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
“People need information as much as water, food, medicine or shelter. Information can save lives, livelihoods and resources. Information bestows power.”
- Markku NiskalaSecretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
The challenge:
Tracking
Organizing
The random stuff
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
http://mobileactive.org/mobile-voice-use-mobile-phones-citizen-media
Every Cell Phone Is A Media Outlet
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Mexico EarthquakeApril 12th, 2007andresb my whole apartment creaked and bent a little half a minute ago from twitterrificandresb The strongest tremor I’ve felt since I’m hereBioXD Acaba de temblar :S….estuvo muy fuerteandresb woooooow, earthquake in Mexico CityCyberMJ75 Damn! Just experienced an earthquake. That sucker lasted some minutes.paranoideo Very strong earthquake in Mexico City, paranoideo.com is reporting live (:P)earcos Very strong earthquake in Mexico City, VivirMexico.com is reporting live (in spanish, sorry)Satrina Earthquake in Mexico City, was long and a little bit strongdotmotion That was a hell of an earthquake.. and I’m on a 7th floor… I still feel sickrogeriogal Earthquake in Cuernavaca, just passed. I’m still dizzy.trisignia wow, earthquake in Mexico City…my first everhelmi Mexico earthquake now on german news tvrobblatt Earthquake still not on cnn.com (at approx. 11:10 p.m. Pacific)
Robert Scoble http://scobleizer.com/2007/04/12/mexico-city-earthquake-reported-on-twitter-first/Wednesday, March 18, 2009
How did I find out about the Mexico City Earthquake? On Twitter. As soon as people started reporting it on Twitter, I looked at the USGS maps. The Twitterers beat the USGS by several minutes.
-Robert Scoble
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
“I reported the major quake to my followers on Twitter before the USGS Website had a report up and about an hour before CNN or major press started talking about it.
How did I do that? Well, I was watching Twitter on Google Talk. Several people in China reported to me they felt the quake WHILE IT WAS GOING ON!!!”
-Robert Scoble
http://scobleizer.com/2008/05/12/quake-in-china/
China EarthquakeMay 12th, 2008
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Curtis Williams http://twitter.com/lenier/statuses/376713132
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Photo by juliebee http://www.flickr.com/photos/69148125@N00/326386880/
Most mainstream media are just broadcasting ...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
✤ Photo by Paulo Alegria http://www.flickr.com/photos/49457106@N00/280789933/
... rather than listening and tracking reports from the ground (from users of twitter, flickr, etc.)
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
http://startpr.com
We need new ways to identify news as it breaks
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&ll=18.922445,72.832242&spn=0.007054,0.007864&z=17&msid=105055855763538009401.00045c9d8b16af3ad1008
Mumbai Attacks
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/26_November_2008_Mumbai_attacks
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=Mumbai+attacks&aq=f
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=mumbai%20attacks&w=all
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=california%20wildfire&w=7550402%40N02
California Fires
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
http://twitter.com/jamesbuck/statuses/786571964
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
http://twitter.com/jamesbuck/status/853029967
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Erroneous Amber Alert Spread Via TwitterFebruary 17, 2009
“AMBER ALERT A 7 yr old girl was taken by a man driving a newer silver truck. The license plate reads 72b381 please please pass on.”
Utah authorities claimed the reports to be a false instance of an Amber Alert and issued a statement.
However, Twitter users continued to report the missing girl, going so far as to tie up the lines of police stations across the country with tips on the supposed abductor...
http://instantamber.com/news/breaking-news-erroneous-amber-alert-spread-via-twitter/
However ...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
“Twitter messages were providing incredible focus on the important subtopics that had yet to become popular in the traditional media… what I found most interesting… was that news articles did exist on these topics, but just weren't valued highly enough yet r not focusing on the right stories (as the majority of tweets were).”
-Vik Singh
Architect, Yahoo! BOSS diy search engine
An attempt to provide context
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
http://tweetnews.appspot.com/fresh?q=earthquake
(1) Real-time search + freshness
(2) Stitching social commentary to authoritative sources of information
-Vik Singh
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Building a news organization from scratch on Twitter:
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
The challenge:
Tracking
Organizing
The random stuff
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Social media allows not only for the reporting of hyper-local breaking news, but also for distributing helpful information after the fact and particularly for organizing collective action to help deal with crises.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Instedd
"It's a familiar scene. Following the onset of a major disease outbreak or natural disaster, government agencies, non-governmental organizations and the local community must join forces and act quickly to alleviate suffering. You, your colleagues and groups that don't normally work together now need to communicate, assemble teams, share information, make plans and coordinate a response.”
http://instedd.org/
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
http://gustav08.ning.com/Wednesday, March 18, 2009
http://www.hurricanewiki.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
The challenge:
Tracking
Organizing
The random stuff
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
✤ We can do a lot to prepare in advance, by learning to better identify breaking news (and providing tools and training to people) and by planning effective methods for crisis response using social media.
✤ We can also work to minimize the impacts of the most random types of breaking crises and their consequences.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
“Oh, during the quake we didn’t lose power, didn’t lose cell phones, and didn’t lose access to Twitter.
During a really big quake there will be lots of infrastructure down, but SOMEONE will be able to get messages out and that’ll really be interesting to watch how information gets shared if, say, all of San Francisco isn’t able to communicate with the Internet.”
-Robert Scoble
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
SXSW Panel, March 17th, 2009
@alexdcalexdc.org
StartPR.com
Digital Tsunami: Breaking News at Breakneck Speeds
Alex de Carvalho
Wednesday, March 18, 2009