Beyond contributions to mainstream media, the consumer/producer role is evident in the increased use of shared or social media sites to publish media content gathered 5with mobile media. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina for example, citizens of New Orleans began using online sites such asFlickr andBlogger to publish their stories, photos and footage of the conditions being experienced in the city as victims waited for assistance. In response some mainstream Websites such asCNN.com created their own special Hurricane Katrina citizen journalism sites to tap into this grassroots coverage of the event. Similarly, the bomb attacks on London’s transport system in 2005 was seen as a watershed moment in participatory journalism. In addition to the eyewitness mobile phone camera footage and voice reports ‘filed’ by victims and witnesses to mainstream news organisations, vast amounts of text, images, video and audio were self-published in the aftermath of the blasts. In particular ‘moblogging’ - the combination of mobile media and self-published Web logs or ‘blogs’ - proved a popular and fast way for these accounts and supporting commentary to be published. It is claimed that the first pictures of the bombings appeared on a moblog site, and that 3,000 mobloggers contributed content to one UK moblog site alone (Quinn & Quinn-Allan, 2006, p.63). Mainstream media such as theBBC
,
The Guardian
, and
Sky News
also attracted and made use of eyewitness or public-supplied media material, much of it captured and supplied via mobile media.
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