Vancouver Stanley Cup riot

Vancouver Stanley Cup riot was a public interference that brought down the downtown of Vancouver in Canada. The riot happened as a planned incident since it occurred immediately after the win of Boston Bruins over the Vancouver Canucks in the game seven of Stanley Cup Finals. This article majors on how this media took place in spreading the roamers. It was a report on social media that one hundred and forty individuals were injured in the incident while at least four were stabbed. According to the commentary social medial is the paramount option in dispersion news since it is easily accessible by large number of individuals worldwide.  In Reference to the article the rioters were not only against the incident but also several face-book vigilantes who posted many private issues of the victims rather than majoring on the culprits. The social media action was so fascinating to follow the happening in Vancouver, since many images of drunken riots plus other non-crucial images which supposedly involved a couple kissing (Schneider & Trottier, 2011)

 

Several pictures on face-book concerning the occurrence on riots pictures gave an impressive power of the social media considering both good and bad. This article gives clear information on social media as a source involved in sharing; thoughts, memories especially on the happenings of Vancouver night rioters since, it able to provide full and live information within the shortest time possible. Images and cartridges which were mailed with information on every pace of the turbulence appeared on social media plus twitter within the seconds of the first sign of distress.  It was the quality of information posted all over the internet that gave the police confidence of tracking down the suspects of the incidents (Schneider & Trottier, 2011)

Questions

• Is it veracious for the communal media especially face book to act first in spreading incidents such as the Vancouver hockey riots; if so what kind of information should they not interfere with and why? The social media is known as voice of the people, are some social media like face-book really important in spreading news? If so, what should be done to the unnecessary images posted through this media?
• Considering the riot aftermath certain individuals of the earliest digital noticed there was a pending distress which came along in form of social media especially the face-book thereby; they decided on developing a network tracking device which probably will be capable of tracing individuals who majors on posting unnecessary information. To what range can the device track the culprits and how helpful will the device be to the society?

 

• The article provides information on how a similar riot occurred back in ‘1994, should the authorities be held responsible for not conducting proper as well as comprehensive menace and peril valuation? The city of Vancouver has faced similar attack in two different years, does it qualifies to holding such events in the furture? From the article, the police were also confident that the hockey game would be safe, was it so foolish of them of being confident plus what was the basis of their self-assurance? Should the government take part in the occurrence considering the past similar happening? If so, should it contribute anything or the final cost will be directed to the taxpayers? What is the possible grievance as well as criminal charges to be dubious?

References

Schneider, Christopher J; Trottier, Daniel, (2011).VANCOUVER RIOT AND THE ROLE OF FACEBOOK IN CROWD-SOURCED POLICING. Pro Quest.