During the G20 meeting and protests in London the BBC maintained a Live Feed of all the action going on on the ground on their website. It included news submissions from members of the public via email and Twitter.
This new way of reporting interested, intrigued and confused me so I copied the entire transcript of the day and decided to create a chronological account in the form of a bound book.
The main issue I was trying to face was the rise of social networks and new media sources versus traditional print based news consumption.
I reasoned that it is easy to edit, modify and erase within modern media sources which reminded me of an Orwellian future where information is mutable to whoever it suits. In creating this book I hoped it would act as a concrete artifact that preserves the information as it was.
Another interesting aspect was how much of the actual news presented in the Live Feed was generated by BBC reporters and how much submitted by the general public. I was intrigued as to which source was more valid than the other in the general confusion of a protest.
