With citizen reporters regularly turning to social media first – and not typically on Google+, the company's own social media site – Google is working to assert the variety of other ways it has to participate in the reporting process, ranging from first-hand videos posted to YouTube to its wealth of data and information collected from the world's searchers.
Born in 1946 and brought up in Guernsey, Foss used abandoned World War Two bunkers as a playground and witnessed first-hand the post-war damage in Europe as a six-year-old - the influence of which is clear in his fictional landscapes.
Students at the Metropolitan Learning Center, a public school in Bloomfield, Conn., have gotten a first-hand viewpoint on post-war Iraq -- over the Internet.
(Regular readers of The Choice know this first-hand from his posts for us, including one last year about a son who marches to the beat of a different educational drummer, which prompted several hundred comments).
Although insightful, this perhaps reflects the challenges of conducting high-quality, first-hand research in post-conflict settings, as Witter [ 56] also noted.
I observed this first hand: I posted a video to YouTube the night of the cancelled talk on February, detailing what I knew about Milo at that time and giving my opinions on it.
Soon enough, these images and first-hand accounts were being posted and shared online.
Isobel Bowdery became famous overnight after she posted her harrowing first-hand account of surviving one of the many shootings during the Paris attacks on Friday night.
In my official visits to 150 countries, I have witnessed first-hand the transformation from the post-9/11 single-minded focus by governments and law enforcement on Al Qaeda and foreign-born terrorists, to today's concerns about foreign criminals generally, and cybercrime and security more specifically.
Also, in politics plenty of senior ministers approach new posts with little first-hand knowledge of their brief.
Even Mark Zuckerberg liked her post: But it seems that people who are angry with the attention she is getting, as well as with the situation in Paris, are setting up fake accounts in her name on Facebook: The original post of her first-hand account was uploaded to her profile page with the University of Cape Town as her location.
