Wednesday, October 31, 2012

# 7 How did you watch The perfect storm Sandy?

How did social media and various technologies keep you updated with the "Perfect Storm"? Show and explain the GBU (good bad & ugly) of the media and societies use of technology to keep people informed.
Like No. 9, this one didn't take any sophisticated sleuthing to debunk. The Atlantic's Madrigal scores it "fake (but awesome)":

 Also in the not-fake-but-not-Sandy category is this picture purporting to be from a hurricane-ravaged McDonald's in Virginia. It's not. In a case of life imitating art, the photo is from a 2009 installation/film called, appropriately enough, Flooded McDonald's:

http://theweek.com/article/index/235578/10-fake-photos-of-hurricane-sandy

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