Future of journalism?

[Dunn]

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jul/30/google-glass-istanbul-protests-vice

Interesting article. What do you think?

 

[Lauffray]

Well it looks more practical than carrying expensive gear into a chaotic crowd, but in the end it's just a tool, journalism is about investigation and reporting stories, isn't it ? how does this change ?

 

[Andrea Taurisano]

Provided that a tool can match the demandings of media industry and photojournalists, why not? Google glasses may even keep the photographer safer by allowing him / her more awareness of the surroundings and evolving situations.
I'm sure that even GoPros have been used to report from hot zones.

 

[squareshooter]

I have fkown journalists from as far back as the 1950s who employed cameras that looked like anything but cameras. Tesssina cameras in a cigarettte box, to photograph vice in Mexican border towns for example. The old one-shot camera strapped to the leg to photograph a woman's execution in New York. There are many instances where a journalist will get beaten up, arrested, killed or all of the above for merely showing a camera. It is a mean world. I am sure many more clever gizmos will be employed. When private business and the government conspire to make it a crime to report torture of animals -- or people -- something creative has to be done no matter if it's glasses or drones. You don't have to let the creeps win.

 

[newsgrunt]

Simply livestreaming an event isn't journalism imo. There needs to be context, explanation and background. Possible downside to livestreaming dangerous situations could be that the wearer might be easier to single out and dealt with (if the feed was being monitored). jmho