This is about as niche as a new media website can get: a blog about cameraphones. I am indebted to Adrian Monck’s blog for pointing me towards Picturephoning.com. You might think it is quite a long way down the journalism long tail but cameraphones are one of the hottest bits of networked journalism kit at the moment. Take the attempted attack on Glasgow airport, for example. But video-phones are also there to receive which makes them a vital platform for all those news organisations with an online video plan (all of them, in other words). But as if to prove that today’s new media is tomorrow’s old media, Emily Turrettini reports on how the phone used to capture some of most dramatic pictures during the Virginia Tech shooting has been bought by a museum.
Charlie Beckett
July 9th, 2007
Cameraphones are news
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
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