JISC Access Management Team

I’m not going to comment on the rights and wrongs of the election but this does seem almost a test of the power of web 2.0 vs traditional state apparatus. BBC now with reporting restrictions have started providing links to all sorts of citizen journalism. Very useful but the only problem is that if I see John Simpson (a credited BBC Journalist) doing a report, there is a degree assurance as to his identity ( I say degree because even the New York Times hasn’t been immune from made up reports). Some of the stuff I’ve seen on Youtube is authentic but then some I have my doubts about. Even if I have an assurance about the origin ( ie student at Tehran ac uk or the equivalent) it probably wouldn’t help me in this case, as my understanding of Iranian affairs is too poor to make a qualitive assessment of that info. But imagine it was transposed here….video footage or tweet of an incident….. would it help to know it was from a UK Media student?, UK Academic? Academic in a Politics faculty?