Evaluation of Social Media Sources

PDN

World Press Photo Disqualifies Controversial Winner

Credibility

The PDN Pulse is a professional blog by the editors of Photo District News. The quality and sponsors of the blog lend a lot of credibility. It can be Googled and the links work correctly.

Location

The blog itself is about professional photography and is from a well known source, the PDN. The blogger is a photographer himself, but did not appear to be directly involved with the controversy. The blog requires membership to post stories, and so the writer is involved with photojournalism in general.

Network

The blogger is an executive editor at PDN. There are other photographers blogging about him and talking about the article and other articles he's written.

Context

The content is consistent with all the other articles I've found on the controversy. Him being an executive at the PDN assures its public accuracy.

Contextual Updates

The blog post itself is an update from before the World Press Photo decided to revoke the award amidst the controversy.

Age

I don't see any information on how old the account is, but this seems unimportant due to the fact of the bloggers position in the organization.

Reliability

Again, the blogger's position in the photojournalism world shows the blog post's reliability.

World Press Photo Award withdrawn over violation of rules

Credibility/Reliability

The author is an independent photographer and from his other posts, keeps up on many social issues, especially the politics of photojournalism. (I've combined these two criteria in that there is not as much information on this blog and the author as there are in the above exapmle.)

Location

He is not directly involved with the controversy or with the WPP in an official capacity, living in Canberra, Australia. 

Network

The blogger does have a relatively small following, but his professional circle is made up of other photographers and journalists and not simply random readers.

Contextual Updates

No further updates as this controversy does seem to be over.

Age

The blog has been maintained very well with several blog posts per day. I see no information on how new the blog is, but it's scope lends to the fact that the blogger has been active in networking in the past and now.