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Kyle Jackson on 20 Jan 12"The Arab Spring, Michael Jackson's death, the Hudson plane crash. Each of these news stories was transformed by a new dimension of coverage through social media and citizen journalism. Each was instantaneously broken - by people, not journalists - with continuous real-time updates comprising of eye-witness accounts, commentary, images and film. And it was all powered by the once humble mobile phone."