Thursday, November 3, 2011

Turnstyle: Rivalry Breaks Out Among NYC's Live-streaming Protesters

By: Nina Porzucki

Victoria Sobel was making her afternoon rounds of Zuccotti Park. Holding a laptop with a webcam pointed outward, Sobel stopped to talk with two construction workers eating lunch in the Lower Manhattan park. She asked them if they wanted to say anything to the 300 people currently watching her livestream channel.

The workers looked at Sobel with a certain enthusiastic expression -- an expression that may be unique to people who are suddenly aware that their faces are being broadcast to a large, unseen audience by a form of media that is basically free of censorship. Then one of the workers, a barrel-chested man in a hardhat, stared directly into the webcam.


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