Twilkinson9's List: 3.6 Digital Citizenship Assignment

• • When Hurricane Sandy was touching down on the east coast. Local and government offcials gave out their twitter handles so people could stayed informed. They were using digital communication to keep the situation well reported.

• • Use the updated numbers in my assignment
• "I think this demonstrates how Instagram is quickly becoming a useful tool to see the world as it happens –- especially for important world events like this," CEO Kevin Systrom told Mashable through a spokesperson.
• At time of writing, there were 285,000 photos tagged #sandy, 172,000 photos tagged #hurricanesandy and 26,000 photos tagged #frankenstorm. (You can get updated numbers for yourself by searching each hashtag in the app's "Discover" tab.)

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• Individuals have increasingly used social media in disasters as well. As the popularity and accessibility of online and mobile technologies has grown, we have experienced these events firsthand, through photos, text, online posts and videos captured from the ground, posted to Facebook and shared via Twitter, YouTube and other tools. We have watched the fall of governments, water rescues, train crashes, wildfires, tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes and school shootings from our computers and mobile phones. Throughout these events, social media emerged as a popular and powerful tool used by the public to engage and share information.
• Individuals have increasingly used social media in disasters as well. As the popularity and accessibility of online and mobile technologies has grown, we have experienced these events firsthand, through photos, text, online posts and videos captured from the ground, posted to Facebook and shared via Twitter, YouTube and other tools. We have watched the fall of governments, water rescues, train crashes, wildfires, tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes and school shootings from our computers and mobile phones. Throughout these events, social media emerged as a popular and powerful tool used by the public to engage and share information.
• Individuals have increasingly used social media in disasters as well. As the popularity and accessibility of online and mobile technologies has grown, we have experienced these events firsthand, through photos, text, online posts and videos captured from the ground, posted to Facebook and shared via Twitter, YouTube and other tools. We have watched the fall of governments, water rescues, train crashes, wildfires, tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes and school shootings from our computers and mobile phones. Throughout these events, social media emerged as a popular and powerful tool used by the public to engage and share information.

  • everyone was using the new web tools available to us. from ordinary people like you and me posting pictures to instagram of water rushing in parking garages all the way to the govornor of New Jersey giving out his own personal twitter account. They even went beyond that knowing that now everyone is on the social media's, they created a website specific for Hurricane Sandy that is updated hourly with the new information
• Hurricane Sandy marked a shift in the use of social media in disasters. More than ever before, government agencies turned to mobile and online technologies. Before, during and after Sandy made landfall, government agencies throughout the Northeast used social media to communicate with the public and response partners, share information, maintain awareness of community actions and needs, and more.

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• Although, the information was not always accurate, some of the reports were found to be true and gave a snapshot of flooding and power outages in real time -- to both East Coast residents and the world.