International Law

Social media and US Airways Flight 1549

When US Airways Flight 1549 crash landed on the Hudson River, the event unfolded before the world on a range of social media websites.  Employees at Hill & Knowlton have put together two interesting presentations that illustrate the speed at which this event unfolded online.  The first is an animation created by Niall Cook that shows the rapid transformation of Wikipedia's entry on the crash of US Airways Flight 1549:

Second, H&K Canada's digital team also captured (as the event unfolded) screen caps of key sites - search engines, blogs, social networks, corporate sites, aggregators etc.  Brendan Hodgson blogs that this "further demonstrates and reinforces the sheer dynamism of the communications environment in which we now exist; as it relates to the speed by which information on an incident is communicated and shared (e.g. via Twitter), the competitiveness as well as the synergy shaping the relationship between traditional and citizen media, and the actions taken by corporations to respond within this new environment":

Full post as published by Freedom to Differ on January 22, 2009 (boomark / email).