digital media stories

1) HOW LIVE VIDEO ON PERISCOPE HELPED 'GET INSIDE' THE SYRIAN REFUGEE STORY.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/sep/13/periscope-app-syrian-refugees-bild

- A reporter named Paul Ronzheimer travelled across Europe to get live streamed interviews.
- The reporter travelled with refugees from the greek island of kos across europe to germany
- Throughout this journey , he was live streaming through twitter's live streaming app 'Periscope'
- At the beginning the reporter had 1500 followers on the app but after he reacher 33000 followers
- One of the videos was played and replayed more than 90000 times.
- The live broadcasts were unedited which is something that made people see it how it is.
- Broadcasts were focussed on individual refugees and about their experience.
- Easier to get inside the story and would have been harder with camera crew.
- One downside is that videos only stay up for 24 hours on periscope

I think that this was a very well thought idea of how to capture the refugees and the videos could show how it is for a refugee to keep migrating and the journey to Germany.Also I would say that in todays age everyone has a smartphone which means that you can capture moments and now even live stream at the click of a finger.The live streams by Paul really did make it look more real as it was unedited.

2) FACEBOOK ETIQUETTE - SIMPLE GUIDELINES

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/sep/20/facebook-etiquette-dislike-button-guidlines

- Mark Zuckerberg annouced Facebook is working on  a dislike button
- Users have been requesting it for years
- enable users to express empathy about bad news
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