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  • Aug 26, 13

    www.hastac.org/...al-media-discussion-students-0 marathon boston Bombing

    • Social media have proven extremely volatile in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings. Two days after the bombings, Fast Company posted a blog entitled “The Modern Tool In Terror Investigations: Your Phone,” which explained how the mass adoption of smartphones has enabled instant transmission of pictures or short films to ever-greater publics on the myriad of Web 2.0 networks — Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, etc. The article dramatically asserts that once the public realized the power of handheld technology, “culture shifted, just a little.” Maybe. In some ways public response to the bombing marks the new kind of public intervention and collaboration with the government.
    • As soon as the Boston bombing suspects were identified, social media quickly began praising themselves for their newly acquired powers of intervention and potential protection. there were many such tweets as “Social media & the massive use of smartphones amounts to a layer of information protection against terror.” By Friday April 19, with the death of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, in a shootout with police, and the capture of his 19 year old brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was charged on April 22, public discussions have begun to weigh in on the mixed, often distracting and harmful effects of crowdsourcing the bombing investigation via social media.

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  • Aug 26, 13

    abcnews.go.com/...story marathon boston Bombing

    • the tragedy. But amongst the photos and posts about the victims and injured, there were a few others a
    • bout everyday Facebook things.

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  • Aug 26, 13

    www.cnn.com/...curity-cameras-boston-bombings

    • increases the chances of capturing a criminal on video but can generate an overwhelming amount of evidence to sift through.
    • But privacy advocates and other citizens are uneasy with the idea that Big Brother is monitoring their every public move.

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  • Aug 26, 13

    www.washingtonpost.com/...b029-8fb7e977ef71_story_3.html boston marathon Bombing

    • Once the photos of the men in caps were made public Thursday, the FBI tip line filled with calls, including one from the brothers’ aunt, who provided her nephews’ identity, according to federal law enforcement officials.
    • As investigators expected, making the photos public not only brought in new information, but also spurred the brothers into action.

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  • Aug 26, 13

    www.washingtonpost.com/...b029-8fb7e977ef71_story_2.html

    • Law enforcement officials debated whether to release the photos, weighing the risk of the suspects fleeing or staging another attack against the prospect of quicker identification. Officials said they went ahead with the public appeal for three reasons:
    • Investigators didn’t want to risk having news outlets put out the Tsarnaevs’ images first, which might have made them the object of a wave of popular sympathy for wrongly suspected people, as had happened with two high school runners from the Boston

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  • Aug 25, 13

    www.washingtonpost.com/...b029-8fb7e977ef71_story_1.html

    • investigators had 2,000 other leads, too, in the form of photos and video that “almost became a management problem, there was so much of it,”
    • “Find people carrying black bags,” wrote the Reddit forum’s unnamed moderator. “If they look suspicious, then post them. Then people will try and follow their movements using all the images.”

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  • Aug 25, 13

    www.washingtonpost.com/...2-b029-8fb7e977ef71_story.html

    • Videos and still images, thousands of them, were beginning to accumulate.
    • hundreds of hours of video, looking for people “doing things that are different from what everybody else is doing,”

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  • Aug 25, 13

    www.wired.com/...boston-marathon-investigation

    • multiple photos and surveillance video images
    • state-of-the-art facial-recognition softw

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  • Aug 25, 13

    baltimore.cbslocal.com/...ers-used-everyday-in-baltimore boston marathon Bombing

    • Surveillance video and pictures from the public h
    • ave made it possible to put a face to the suspected marathon bombers.

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  • Aug 26, 13

    www.independent.co.uk/...ddit-got-it-wrong-8581167.html marathon boston Bombing

    • social media sites like Twitter and Reddit lit up with a sensational rumor: that Sunil Tripathi, a student who had vanished weeks ago, was one of the suspects accused of bombing the Boston Marathon.
    • US network NBC News reported that the authorities were actually seeking two brothers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, with no link to the missing student.

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