Periscope, the video streaming application launched recently by Twitter, could prove a valuable tool for journalists and other communication actors. But it raises many questions, particularly relating to infringement of privacy.
Periscope, what is it?
Launched last week by Twitter, the Periscope application allows to broadcast on the web streaming live video with their smartphones without via services like YouTube or Dailymotion. Téléchargeabe free on the App Store and is available for now only on iPhone and soon on phones using the Android system. Periscope, which requires having a Twitter account, used to share with his 'followers' experiences of everyday life, meetings, performances, events, contents of his fridge, sunset ...
* Towards an explosion of citizen journalism? *
The recent fire in New York offered a perfect example of the usefulness of such an application, live broadcast of users sinister images. Periscope, like its competitor Meerkat, should greatly contribute to the development of citizen journalism that has exploded during the Arab Spring. Each face of a news event, may well become the reporter for a day and even ahead of the worldwide television. For media specialists, this is the ideal tool for many different points of view, the ideal tool also for 'breaking news'. "When something important happens at an unexpected place, there is little chance that a journalist with a camera or a camera is located on site. But there are almost 100% chance that a lambda person is present, "said AFP Dan Gillmor, a journalism professor at the University of Arizona.
Here is how Periscope creators describe them, the application, "What if you could see through the eyes of a protester in Ukraine? Or watch the sunrise from a hot air balloon in Cappadocia? This may sound crazy, but we wanted to build the closest thing possible to teleportation. "
A threat to the privacy and security?
Like intelligent Google glasses, many on the canvas are concerned about the harmful effects of such a tool on privacy, including fearing to be filmed without their knowledge. Some see Periscope a sort of Big Brother monitoring station or a TV at the scale of an individual. With multiple risks, knowing that people can react to videos posted on the web.
Periscope could grow to a climax narcissistic tendencies. After selfies, self-portrait in fashion, many users could move to the next level and show their followers live their privacy and video. Periscope also raises security issues. We imagine a smartphone attached to a drone
filming live with Periscope application ...
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