Abstract

Today’s Black Lives Matter movement is mediated largely by fortuitous smartphone witnesses and dedicated mobile journalists, who post precious footage to social media platforms that are designed to disappear their content. This has potential long-term consequences for the world’s collective memory of this summer’s global uprising, in the wake of George Floyd’s extrajudicial killing—and beyond. For these reasons, I argue in this article that the next frontier in mobile journalism research will involve finding new ways to archive the millions of protest videos that are uploaded to ephemeral social media sites every day. To achieve this ethically, digital journalism scholars can consider the three “P’s” of protest journalism preservation: precariousness, privacy and platforms.

摘要

当今的“黑色生活问题”运动很大程度上是由偶然的智能手机目击者和专门的移动新闻工作者主持的，他们将宝贵的录像带发布到旨在消失其内容的社交媒体平台上。在乔治·弗洛伊德（George Floyd）进行法外处决之后，这对世界对今年夏天全球起义的集体记忆具有潜在的长期后果。出于这些原因，我在本文中认为，移动新闻研究的下一个前沿领域将涉及寻找新的方式来存档每天上传到临时社交媒体网站的数百万抗议视频。为了做到这一点，数字新闻学者可以考虑抗议新闻保护的三个“ P”：不稳定，隐私和平台。