Fullconnection's List: Digital Citizen

• When any major event happens, it seems like Twitter has become as much a part of the news as the news itsel

• This week I wrote about the bombings and social media and shared the piece with my students
• Social media have proven extremely volatile in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings
• “The Modern Tool In Terror Investigations: Your Phone
• 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

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• Everyone has seen the video by now. The Boston bombers, dressed similarly, toting their backpacks through the crowd, one behind the other. With such a powerful visual cue, it’s easy to suppose that video played a crucial role in capturing the culprits
• That’s true to a certain extent, because video images led to quick identification
• For some in public service the presence of video surveillance is an undisputed good. In the U.S. Park Police, Commander of Technical Services Dave Mulholland talks about cameras as a powerful force multiplie

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• On Monday, April 15 at 2:50pm, Twitter user @DeLoBarstool tweeted one of the first internet records of the Boston Marathon bombings
• social media users, citizen journalists and venerable broadcasters fell down the rabbit-hole of misinformation, spurred by an unprecedented eagerness to capture and respond to the first terrorist act on American soil since 9/11—when things like Facebook, Twitter and smartphones didn’t exist

• As smoke clears from two deadly bombings near the finish line of the Boston Marathon yesterday afternoon, focus turns to identifying those responsible. And that’s no easy task. The massive number of cell phones and closed circuit cameras on the street provide an incredible wealth of video and photo
• "We are processing all the digital photographic evidence we can," says Richard DesLauriers, the special agent leading the FBI’s Boston Division

• The FBI has released photos of two suspects it wants to identify as part of the investigation into Monday's Boston Marathon bombings.
• CCTV captured the two men, one wearing a dark-coloured baseball cap and the other a white cap, near the scene
• The FBI published the images on its website along with a 30-second video showing the men walking in single file a few paces apart along Boylston Street in central Boston

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• Man planned to propose, girlfriend killed
• Among the many gripping images to emerge from the bombing's aftermath was one of a man in a red shirt, kneeling on the ground cradling a woman in his arms. It went viral -- with a heartbreaking, but fake, story attached

• The man in the red shirt planned to propose to his girlfriend as he crossed the finish line of the Boston Marathon, but she passed away" it reads. "Most of us will never experience this amount of emotional pain."

   

  The image is, in fact, real. It comes from the Boston Globe and was shared through Getty Images. But the agency's caption merely describes the scene as a man comforting an injured woman at the finish line.
• Tuesday morning, the picture had more than 448,000 "likes" and had been shared over 92,000 times

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• Google Person Finder has been activated in disasters, including the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and the 2011 earthquake and nuclear accident in Japan
• A Twitter spokeswoman had no comment. Facebook didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment