Practising Videojournalism

A picture in The Guardian newspaper’s centre-spread yesterday showed the unveiling of the Nelson Mandela statue in London. The photo showed large numbers of people in the crowd. What were they doing? Not clapping or waving…no they were all raising their mobile phones to take a picture or video. What I wonder did they do with the result? Is it for their friends to see or their own records?

Why now do we think that taking video validates our very existence and attendance at an event like this?

I always saw video as a way of opening up the world to others- now it has taken on a very different form of daily celebration or confirmation of life.

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