ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the various roles that image-making and cameras performed, and how the audience participated in the discussion of the images in Boston at different stages of the investigation. The analysis is done by studying data collected from social media sites and the feeds from some key institutions involved in reporting the Boston Marathon bombing. The rapid spread of camera phones during the past ten years has changed the production, distribution and availability of photos. Consequently, the overwhelming influx of images has affected our lives and lifestyles in many fundamental ways. Camera phones have also brought rich metadata as a standard feature of digital photos. Various sensors are included in high-end camera phones, such as GPS, gyroscope, electronic compass and accelerometer. In Boston, an opposite trend was emerging. With the help of metadata enhanced mobile phone photos and new methods of analysis from fragmented pieces of information, something arose which the author would like to call hyperreliability.
