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Dashcam captures crash of ATR72 in Taipei (youtube.com)
5 points by ptaipale on Feb 4, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



What I find interesting about news reporting here is two technosocial trends:

1) The proliferation of dashcams is giving footage of lots of things that used to have no video material, like plane crashes or a meteor in Siberia - in addition to the actual point of dashcams, recording what happened in traffic accidents

2) You hear of major incidents first through social media, not traditional news. I watched this in Youtube before it was in CNN, BBC or other major Western news sources. However, what's in Youtube seems to be captured from local TV broadcast.




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