Street twitter
Street Twitter is a Twitter project from Dresden by the medical assistant Johannes Filous and the mechanical engineering student Alexej Hock. In response to the attack on the protest camp by refugees in front of the Semperoper in March 2015, they have been reporting on the Twitter profile @streetcoverage about and about actions, conflicts and demonstrations on the subject of refugees and asylum. Among other things, about the xenophobic protests in Freital and the arson attack in Meißen. “ Reports and live tickers from wherever there's a fire. Against racism and xenophobia ”is the description on Twitter. The aim is to report in a format that can provide a sober and objective picture of the situation.
Hock and Filous were threatened and attacked several times by Pegida demonstrators. The project was reported in the press and the tweets were included in the online reporting of newspapers. On November 2, 2015, the project was awarded the € 3,000 prize for moral courage from the support group Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe chaired by Lea Rosh for its commitment to an open society and against right-wing extremism , anti-Semitism and racism. In December Filou and Hock began in the pages of corrective via crowdfunding money for a journalistic platform above right websites and collect asylum rallies, miteinzubinden to other volunteers in the work. The financial target was exceeded in February 2016.
On June 24, 2016, Straßengezwitscher received the Grimme Online Award in the “Information” category.
Web links
- @streetcoverage on Twitter
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Dresden Twitter project receives an award ( Memento of the original from June 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on MDR.de . Retrieved February 20, 2016.
- ↑ a b c d Matthias Meisner : "Straßengezwitscher" receives prize for moral courage in the Tagesspiegel . Retrieved February 20, 2016.
- ^ A b Siegbert Schefke, MDR: 140 signs against hatred , video on Tagesschau.de . Retrieved February 20, 2016.
- ↑ a b Information portal about right-wing rallies , crowdfunding on corrective . Retrieved February 20, 2016.
- ↑ Nils Bastek: "road singing": Two students report via the Internet by right-wing demonstrations , Dresdner Latest News . Retrieved February 20, 2016.
- ↑ Anna Biselli: Straßengezwitscher - "Reports and live tickers from where there is a fire." On netzpolitik.org . Retrieved February 20, 2016.
- ↑ Grimme Online Award 2016 presented. (No longer available online.) Grimme Institute, archived from the original on June 25, 2016 ; Retrieved June 25, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
