Caring and Giving Via New Media
Haiti has certainly been on our collective minds in recent days. We've heard the heart-breaking soundbites, read the grim details, and seen the shocking images. But more than any disaster before it, this tragedy is being reported by regular people through interpersonal media tools like Facebook and Twitter. And New Media is changing the way we give, with many making monetary contributions by text message. NPR reports.
Labels: internet, newsgathering, socialnetworking
posted by Mike Eberts (AKA Your Humble Blogger) @ 1:02 PM
1 Comments:
I believe that this new media is very useful for fund-raising, while still keeping the traditional ways of giving money, due to cultural lag and trust.
For example, few GCC college clubs have began using traditional methods to participating in fund-raising to help Haiti.
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