The Boston Marathon bomber: Caught on film? By Kate Dailey BBC News Magazine 17 April 2013
More personal videos are being shot now than ever before, and such footage could help identify the Boston Marathon bomber. But how is that footage processed - and could civilians really solve the crime? There was the marathon runner closing in on the finish line, and the businessman with offices in a prime position over Boylston Street. And there were thousands of others crowding the last stretch of the Boston Marathon, all capturing the events before and after the bombs exploded. "The reality is with the number of people who are carrying with them the equivalent of video camera, history is being documented by millions of people every day," says Karen North, director of University of Southern California's Annenberg Program on online communities. Infusing video In just over a decade, she says, the amount of video being shot by amateurs has increased dramatically - and so too, has the evidence available to law enforcement officials. ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22191029 _______________________________________________ Medianews mailing list [email protected] http://etskywarn.net/mailman/listinfo/medianews_etskywarn.net
