How the Arab Spring Moved Citizen Journalists to Use Maps, HTML5 Instead of Text

Posted: 12/15/2011  |  By: Mohammad Al abdallah | International Journalists' Network

Covering countries in political turmoil has opened the door to innovation: activists and citizen journalists are using maps, HTML5 and video to report the events of the Arab Spring instead of relying only on text.

This is one of the takeaways from a recent conference titled “Network, Social Media and Political Change in Middle East and North Africa (MENA)” held at the University of Victoria.