Sunday, April 4, 2010

A Student Did That?

I was very impressed with the "Distracted Delegates" video, a multimedia story done by a student journalist.

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She took a video of the delegates while they were in a meeting a reported the ones who were surfing the web or chatting online. Doing something other than what they were supposed to do.

She started off with an interesting theory, wondering if, like so many college students, do delegates also get distracted by social media during important meetings?

She went out and found the answer. Turns out, even professionals lose their focus sometimes. There were a surprising amount of delegates surfing the web during the meeting.

I also would like to know if they knew she was going to do this story. I think if the delegates had known, it would have affected the what they did during the meeting, but on the other hand, is it ethical to write a story that the subjects do not know they are taking part in?

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