Social Media

and

Politics

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/4/newsid_2496000/2496277.stm

You Tube now hosts this film clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-nXT8lSnPQ

20 years ago, the world was forced to stand by and look on, until it was forcibly ejected and forbidden to report on events unfolding in China:

The rise of the citizen journalist

Follow this link to the Guardian article

What has changed in the last few years?

In pairs explore the websites on your sheets, and add notes to the virtual whiteboard on the ways in which the public has played a part in bringing about change, or in giving a voice to the less powerful.

Collect at least three examples.