Analyzing 'the first YouTube war'
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - 09:30
in Mathematics & Economics
Hundreds of amateur videos captured by news activists, citizen journalists and foreign correspondents in Homs, and distributed to news organizations and video-sharing websites around the world, have prompted some to dub the situation in Syria the first YouTube war. We asked Jeff Howe an assistant professor of journalism in the College of Arts, Media and Design who coined the term crowdsourcing to explain how videos of violence in Syria have shaped perception of the conflict.