How has social media (Facebook, Twitter, ect.) changed reporting by the media on natural disasters?

[ashlei]

How has social media (Facebook, Twitter, ect.) changed reporting by the media on natural disasters?

[Jules]

People tell people about natural disasters.

We can rely on each other to get information. Before we had to rely on big media stations that may take hours to relay information to us. Now we can just read twitter feeds instantaneously.

Henry Jenkins has wrote a lot about this subject. He used to work at MIT and now works at USC. there are also youtube videos of him talking about this subject.

We don't need to watch tv anymore to learn about natural disaster. We can just go on twitter.

http://www.thegauntlet.ca/story/northern...-disasters

[yumicandy]

Well, one day I didn't know it was snowing and I logged into Facebook and I saw on my newsfeed people post "it's snowing!!!!!"
Without watching the news, I knew through Facebook because ppl always updating.

[kemperk]

it has not
newscasters use standard broadcasting methods