Thursday 3 April 2014

New and digital media; stories#20 - mr halsey

Link: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/23/trick-or-tweet-boy-hoax-football-twitter

Tittle: Trick or tweet: the boy who hoaxed the football world

Sam Gardiner is a football-mad schoolboy, but no one took his opinions seriously. So he created a fake Twitter personality and soon was talking tactics with Premiership players. Tim Lewis meets the spoofer extraordinaire.

Sam Gardiner

- Depending on how you view these things, Gardiner is either a harmless hoaxer with an opportunistic spirit, or he's a reminder of the dangers we all face now that we're taking more of our news from social media and non-traditional sources.
- Made a fake account to prove a point;; over social networking adults dont want to listen to the younger generation or take them seriously.

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