The plentiful and unsettling imagery from protests, filmed by participants on the ground and uploaded, is bringing protests and crackdowns to millions of handheld devices almost immediately. The images ricochet across the planet, as so many do in this dizzying era of film it, upload it, tell it to the world: scenes from a protest-turned-government crackdown, captured at ground level by smartphone users on the streets of Myanmar. The ability of on-the-ground imagery from amateurs to define a conflict, through still photos and particularly video, has been accelerating for more than a decade.”]
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