citizen media and organized crime
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For 2010 Austin ForumTRANSCRIPT
Citizens and the coverage of organized crime and public safety
#balaceratechttp://m1zar.blogspot.com/2010/03/desde-la-casa-del-vecino.html
#balaceratec“In order to inform others ...”
Narco-Censorship“¿Qué predomina en los periódicos: lo que se dice o lo que se calla?” - Diego Enrique Osorno
Blog del Narco
“Queremos ponerles nombres, rostros. Dejar de banalizar la muerte.”
Menos Días Aquí - menosdiasaqui.blogspot.com
Anonymity = Cloak from fear, government regulation
"For the scanty details that they put on television, they get grenades thrown at them and their reporters kidnapped. We publish everything. Imagine what they could do to us."
- Blog del Narco
This is being produced by someone who is not doing it from a journalistic perspective. He is doing it without any ethical considerations."Carlos Lauria - Committee to Protect Journalists
Yet Another DivideAcademia vs. Journalism vs. Citizen Journalism
Reachhttp://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/blogdelnarco.com
Leonarda Reyes“for criminals to share information among themselves”
NarcoTube"Canal oficial del Cartel del Golfo"youtube.com/user/lanuevafederacion
Facebook Hit Listhttp://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2013816,00.html
La Respuesta: Censura?http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1981607,00.html
Video and Accountabilityhttp://informacioncivica.info/mexico/the-good-bad-and-ugly-of-online-video-in-mexico/
Questions for Discussion
•Do mechanisms need to be invented to train and protect citizen journalists similar to those that already exist for professional journalists?
•Proceso is starting to publish some articles anonymously - what are the advantages and disadvantages?
•Should journalism schools teach circumvention techniques to students to protect their identity and publish anonymously?
•What is the role of the professional journalist in the online information ecology?
•Is Judith’s work financially sustainable?
•Should the government regulate online information?
Chapter 2: Circumvention and Anonymity
Every website you’ve visited knows ...
Cookie Monster
Wireshark
VPN’s Versus Tor
Anonymous Blogging with Wordpress & Tor
http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/projects/guide
FlossManuals: Circumvention Tools
http://en.flossmanuals.net/CircumventionToolshttp://translate.flossmanuals.net/CircumventionTools_es
“Without a Trace: Turn Your Flash Drive into a Portable Privacy Toolkit”
http://lifehacker.com/5629082/without-a-trace-turn-your-flash-drive-into-a-portable-privacy-toolkit
