I've written about the potential impact of cameraphones and videophones upon China's media and political life (see "Watershed event: Amateur riot video circulates in China", and "Another reason China should fear the 'Net: A million people with camera phones").
I've also given presentations where I discussed how it could lead to a new generation of news apps that sort and feed these images to consumers, maybe accompanied by news that's "read" by a speech synthesizer, or paired with a 3D avatar/anchor treatment.
But Dan Gillmor has considered another effect of this trend: The demise of photojournalists. Read his essay here, and the interesting comment thread that follows.
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