When the Iranian government blocked major news services from covering the election protests in July 2009, many individuals turned to alternative sources for information. Flickr, for example, became a respository of images taken not by professional news photographers, but by citizen journalists armed with a camera…and an Internet connection.
Resources
- Iran – a social media election
- Flickr, Buzznet expand citizens’ role in visual journalism
- Flickr is Photo Journalism
- Flickr takes video – what does that mean?
- How Flickr impacted collaborative photojournalism
- Flickr Help
- How to Use Flickr: Basics and Beyond
- Flickr: Creative Commons
- How to use Photo Booth
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