This panel provides a unique perspective to the development and impact of social media tools in Mexico today. This panel features journalists and scholars from Mexico who will discuss how social media tools are being used in news organizations. In addition, they will discuss how Mexican citizens are using Twitter as a way to respond the lack of information in the newspapers that are under threat of drug traffickers. As news organizations have been forced to practice self-censorship after so many assassinations and kidnappings of journalists, citizens and even journalists have been using social media as the last resort to spread the news. In addition, Twitter has been used by the local Mexican government to inform the citizenry about dangerous areas because of drug trafficking. The journalists and scholars in this panel will discuss their own experience and use of social media, but also how society is using it.
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