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Arrest Caught On Google Glass Reignites Privacy Debate

Elise Hu | NPR.org | July 8, 2013

The Fourth of July holiday brought about another first for Google Glass, the computing device that you can wear on your face. Read More »

Can Citizen Journalism Move Beyond Crisis Reporting In Traditional Newsrooms?

Trevor Knoblich | FrontlineSMS | May 9, 2013

The aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings demonstrated yet another significant marker for citizen journalism. Felix Salmon, in an excellent post on the Reuters blog, wrote that the manhunt for a suspect in the bombings “in many ways represented the first fully interactive news story.” The crisis again demonstrated the value — and risks — of citizen reporting via social media. Read More »

Can Citizen Journalism Move Beyond Crisis Reporting?

Trevor Knoblich | PBS.org | June 9, 2013

The aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings demonstrated yet another significant marker for citizen journalism. [...] The crisis again demonstrated the value — and risks — of citizen reporting via social media. Read More »

News Participation Starts At ‘Home’

Trevor Knoblich | FrontlineSMS | November 16, 2012

Seemingly every major news event worldwide is heightening participation in news. People are eager to share updates and photos of an unfolding news event, ask questions of media outlets, and share important information. But there are two important aspects to this type of participation [...]. In other words, people write about their immediate world using their ‘home’ or go-to platform. Read More »

Project Activate - Ushahidi Comes To Town

Robin Hough | The Guardian | November 22, 2010

As part of the Guardian's second Project Activate initiative we open up our doors and our minds to the crisis crowdsourcing platform Ushahidi for a week of creative and technological collaboration Read More »

The Power of Many: How Does Open Source Journalism Affect PR?

Juliana Allen | Business2Community | July 2, 2014

...Crowdsourcing is proof that “more is better.” And given that information is gold to journalists, it shouldn’t be a surprise that so called “open source journalism” has been on the rise...

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Ushahidi: The African Software Platform Helping Victims In Global Emergencies

Staff Writer | Knowledge @ Wharton | January 22, 2013

During a natural disaster or in the midst of civil violence, the immediate need for those caught up in the situation is to escape and find a safe haven. But oftentimes in such chaos, information is difficult to come by and unreliable. Read More »