As ever with question-based headlines, the answer is frankly ‘who knows?’. But a new mobile experiment being carried out by BBC Innovation, Nokia, new media firm Ymogen and the University of Brighton does sound interesting.
Geo-stories is a project looking at how photos, video clips and text can be combined with location and time information to create interesting narratives. 18 students from the university have been kitted out with Nokia phones and GPS accessories to see what kind of content they can put together – for example, examining how photos and video taken at a sporting event can be mapped in time and space automatically, to provide a more rounded report on the match.
The future of citizen reporting, or just an excuse for a bunch of skinflint students to blag into Stamford Bridge on a Saturday? We’ll have to wait and see…
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