Social Media
One of the five most stunning posts on Social Media: Statistics
02/01/2014 00:00
These 3 pictures show some statistics of Typhoon Haiyan.
The first picture shows the amount of people affected, the number of of people displaced, the deaths and number of the evacuation centres giving housing to centrain amount of people. Of the 11.8 people affected were 921212 displaced,...
One of the five most stunning posts on Social Media: Devastation
02/01/2014 00:00
This picture says so much about the situation in the Pihlippines. The power and telephone lines are broken, making it so hard to contact the area because calling doesn't work and people have no electricity. Thus, it is also difficult to contact the people living in this area. On the right top, you...
One of the five most stunning posts on Social Media: Short films
02/01/2014 00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNh-_SXdUgA
This little clip is quite spectacular. This is filmed with a low quality filming device, but it clearly shows the power of this Typhoon increasing within 2 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhbfWHtlk5I
In this small film, we see a part of a...
One of the five most stunning posts on Social Media: Trijntje Oosterhuis
02/01/2014 00:00
Trijntje Oosterhuis, a Dutch singer and member of the jury of 'The Voice of Holland', also used Social Media for a donation to Giro 555. She posted on her Facebook and Twitter account that for every like on her Facebook account, she would donate 1€. The Dutch liked it massively and she got more...
One of the five most stunning posts on Social Media: Nick and Simon
02/01/2014 00:00
One of the most stunning posts on Social Media was a post of the Dutch artists Nick and Simon from Volendam. They own a Facebook page together and both write things about their lives as an artist on it; Simon ending it with SK and Nick with an N.
Nick and Simon wanted to make their fans aware...
Impact of Social Media
18/12/2013 12:52
So what exactly has the impact of social media been during the past two months on the situation in the Philipines?
Spreading awareness
Reaching out to younger groups of the population which aren't usually reached by the news
Setting up actions and action groups on Twitter and...