Journalist Bild, found a way to use his smartphone to help those people tell their stories direct to readers. Paul travelled with the Syrian refugees to their destination, Germany. His broadcasts on the periscope app were live and often focused on refugees, with several reappearing regularly to talk about their experience. Views increased from 15,000 to 33,000. He says “In Germany we have been having a big discussion about the intensity of media coverage of this story. But on Periscope, everybody could see it was live". In addition, he added that he was able to get inside the stories of the refugees and gain an insight of what thy're lives are really like and tell the world the truth.
- 15,000 followers to 33,000
- he used his smart phone with the help of the periscope app
- 30 people on the boat
- 16 minute documentary on his website
In my opinion, i think this was a really good idea as it allows the world to see what refugees lives are really like, which can help the wider population change the way we see them and hopefully or eventually help them out.
#2 How Instagram is becoming more gay
Instamgram has said to becoming more gay and over taken by gay men and women. For example, if you look up #instagay you'll see 45 million posts and recently a bunch of accounts have have sprung up celebrating all things like gay marriage etc. Furthermore, it just emphasises the fact that whatever hashtag you write which has the word gay in it, you'll find thousands of posts with gay men and women. Also, people may even say that deep down a disproportion number of gay men struggle with low levels of self esteem. They are usually good at smartening up the surface making themselves and everyhitg around look attractive, which may explain why they've been over-represented in fashion etc to such an extent it has become a stereotype.
- More than 45 million posts
- Using the hashtags #instagay etc allows you to search fro millions of gay people around the world if feeling lonely
In my opinion, i don't think instagram is becoming more gay, this is due to the fact that if it was, you'd see thousands and thousand of gay pictures of men and women everywhere you look on insta. However, when i tried searching something i did come across a gay account with 180k followers, suggesting gay people are now becoming more popular on social networking sites.
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