波士顿马拉松灾难彰显社交媒体的价值

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今天波士顿马拉松爆炸事件发生后,社交媒体网站立即成为公众获取现场报道的最佳途径,这可能并不令人意外。但值得注意的是,它也成为传统新闻媒体进行报道的最佳途径。更重要的是,新闻爆发后的漫长几分钟表明,社交媒体在寻找您个人关注问题的答案方面是多么优越。

以下是一些例子——还有更多——在爆炸发生后的几个小时内出现。

大众科学的撰稿人,居住在佛蒙特州的戴维·多布斯,正在转发他儿子 @taylordobbs 的 Twitter 帖子,他的儿子非常靠近爆炸地点。泰勒还在发布 Twitter 图片,当 ABC 新闻看到这些图片时,一位记者通过 Twitter 询问泰勒,ABC 是否可以在其新闻报道中使用这些照片。泰勒同意了,只要 ABC 恰当地署名即可。


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在 Twitter 话题 #bostonmarathon 中,人们几乎实时地对新闻快讯进行事实核查并揭穿虚假信息。

网站 Reddit 维护了一个聚合各种信息来源的帖子,速度比任何媒体组织都快得多。

维基百科创建了一个名为 波士顿马拉松爆炸事件 的页面,该地区及其他地区的贡献者不断更新该页面。

波士顿田径协会有一个网站,粉丝可以在该网站上查看每位跑步者的分段计时,这立即成为查看个人是否越过终点线的一种方式——这意味着,如果他们没有越过终点线,他们可能在爆炸中受伤了。

最令人印象深刻的是,谷歌迅速创建了一个寻人网站,人们可以在该网站上发布他们正在拼命寻找的朋友或家人的姓名,并且允许人们发布有关他们找到的人的信息。

在页面下半部分,谷歌添加了一条注释,内容为:“输入的所有数据都将公开,并且任何人都可以查看和使用。” 这几乎概括了一切。

Mark Fischetti has been a senior editor at 大众科学 for 17 years and has covered sustainability issues, including climate, weather, environment, energy, food, water, biodiversity, population, and more. He assigns and edits feature articles, commentaries and news by journalists and scientists and also writes in those formats. He edits History, the magazine's department looking at science advances throughout time. He was founding managing editor of two spinoff magazines: 大众科学 Mind and 大众科学 Earth 3.0. His 2001 freelance article for the magazine, "Drowning New Orleans," predicted the widespread disaster that a storm like Hurricane Katrina would impose on the city. His video What Happens to Your Body after You Die?, has more than 12 million views on YouTube. Fischetti has written freelance articles for the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, Technology Review, Fast Company, and many others. He co-authored the book Weaving the Web with Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, which tells the real story of how the Web was created. He also co-authored The New Killer Diseases with microbiologist Elinor Levy. Fischetti is a former managing editor of IEEE Spectrum Magazine and of Family Business Magazine. He has a physics degree and has twice served as the Attaway Fellow in Civic Culture at Centenary College of Louisiana, which awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 2021 he received the American Geophysical Union's Robert C. Cowen Award for Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism, which celebrates a career of outstanding reporting on the Earth and space sciences. He has appeared on NBC's Meet the Press, CNN, the History Channel, NPR News and many news radio stations. Follow Fischetti on X (formerly Twitter) @markfischetti

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