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JFK Assassination
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The History of UGC
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Rodney King Beating
Los Angeles, California (USA) Rodney King was pulled over by LA police for a supposed traffic violation. He was then beaten repeatedly. George Holliday witnessed it from his apartment and filmed it. -
9/11 Attacks
NY, NY (USA) Terrorist attacks on several major US buildings resulted in a large number of eyewitness accounts. -
Columbia Shuttle Disaster
TX (USA) The space shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas and Columbia resulting in the death of all crew members on board. Video recordings were utilized by media from Texan to Louisianna residents. -
Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami
This natural disaster killed over 230,000 people in fourteen countries, including Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand. News outlets utilized raw footage from eyewitnesses to demonstrate the immediate disaster it caused. -
London Subway Bombing
London (UK) Terrorists denonated four bombs aboard London Underground trains killing more than fifty civilians. Footage was filmed by passengers in the underground stations on mobile devices. -
Hurricane Katrina
Louisianna (USA) Hurricane Katrina kills more than 1800 people in the US. The devastation was captured on mutilple recording devices by those affected. -
Virginia Tech Shooting
Virginia (USA) A student at Virginia Tech University opened fire on campus and killed 36 people. Many media outlets relied on footage taken by student Jamal Al Barghouti. -
US Airways Flight 1549
After the loss of engine function in flight, Captain Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger, made an emergency landing of his plane on the Hudson River. Footage caught by Janis Krums catapulted Capt. Sully into stardom and the even has been dubbed the "Miracle on the Hudson." -
Iranian Election Protest
Tehran (Iran) Iranian citizens massively protest the 2009 elections. Media broadcasts relied on user-generated content and the protests have been dubbed the "Twitter Revolution" because of the heavy reliance on social media by the protesters. -
Tunisian Revolution
Mohamed Bouazizi, a man who set himself on fire in protest of officers, sparked the Tunisian Revolution, a series of mass protests that prompted the "Arab Spring." The video was picked up by Al Jazeera. -
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
(Japan) The earthquake that struck Japan caused a tsunami that engulfed the north east coast of the country. Media outlets including the Telegraph relied on UGC. -
Kony 2012
Invisible Children, Inc. released a video to have war criminal Joseph Kony arrested. The thirty-minute video was released on Vimeo and Youtube and has reached more than 90 million views. -
Guwahati Mob abusing girl goes viral
(India) A video caught by eyewitnesses was picked up by broadcasters across India and reached 1 million views in a matter of days. -
"Blue Bra Revolution"
Cairo (Egypt) After this video of police beating a woman protester circulated on the internet, a mass protest of 10,000 women gathered in Cairo.
