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February 23, 2013 10:00 am GMT

War Correspondents In Mexico Address Mainstream Media Shortcomings, Use Twitter To Spread Information

Twitter Mexico flagIn Mexicos drug-war-torn cities, a small number of Twitter users affected by narco violenceare acting as war correspondents to the masses, providing a public-safety alert system of sorts, according to a recent researchpaper from Microsoft, called The New War Correspondents: The Rise of Civic Media Curation in Urban Warfare.

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