How reliable are tweets?
Posted on 17/12/2009
Weblogs, tweets and online videos; in June 2009 Iranian citizens used the internet to give the world a picture of the protests in their country. But how reliable is this type of 'online citizen journalism'? This is one of the questions in the GISWatch report which was recently released.
The report gives an overview of the knowledge sources available to citizens. It also describes government policy with regard to knowledge and information, focusing on 48 countries, from Congo to Costa Rica, from Kazakhstan to Zimbabwe and from the Netherlands to Iran.
All sources of knowledge
Just as in previous years, the GISWatch report discusses access to libraries in relation to intellectual property rights. For the first time, this year’s report looks at Google searches and tweets. The GISWatch report cites the possibilities and the problems of all these sources of information. For instance, just how reliable are tweets?
Most recent edition
Three years ago, Hivos and the Association for Progressive Communications took the initiative for the GISWatch report. The most recent edition was presented on 16 November at the Internet Governance Forum in Egypt.
Photo: GISwatch.org
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