‘The Media Doesn’t Care What Happens Here’

February 19, 2015 9:04 AM

Can amateur journalism bring justice to Rio’s favelas?
From last year: Digital Inclusion and the Ninja of News
Media Ninja ; and here in it´s native Portuguese is a decentralized communication network that produces and disseminates content based on collaborative work and online sharing and is supported by Oximity.
(Oximity Mission Statement) and Previously.
posted by adamvasco (1 comment total)

There's a lot here about how to use video as a citizen journalist anywhere, not just in Rio.

Matheson stressed the importance of so-called linkage evidence — license-plate numbers, military-uniform patterns, close-ups of official documentation — that could be used to place individual perpetrators in a chain of command. Without linkage evidence, you had an individual actor: a rogue cop or soldier who might as well be acting in a vacuum. With it, you had the power to hold responsible an entire police unit or army battalion.
posted by emjaybee at 11:01 AM on February 19, 2015 [1 favorite]