An interesting article “Activist Media from the Frontlines: Mobile, Strategic, and Much More Than Just “Being in the Right Place at the Right Time” on the Mobile Media Toolkit describes the versatility of citizen journalists in conflict zones: “The media-savvy video journalists, dubbed vee-jays deploy a number of astute dissemination strategies: Photos and videos are shared across multiple platforms alongside additional text context or transcripts, and often have metadata such as time, date, and location stamps.”



