SOCC03H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Halloween Costume, Rob Ford, Ball Pit
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This is a hotline where you can anonymously call in the number or do it through the internet and anonymously report information. When reporting doping activity you must provide as much information as possible and specify if you heard it yourself or from someone else. A form of gossip is being institutionalized this way. Here say is the way that gossip has been framed in courts and it is usually admissible, and they don"t use it as supportive evidence. Brings this up just to emphasize the complications of gossip and rumour. Rumour turns into gossip and gossip turns into rumour. There is a rumour that he smoked crack. Then he denied it and then he came out and said yes he did. This generated a whole bunch of new rumours and gossip. How powerful is it when the first image came out, it was a snap from a video. The role of whether the image provides proof is ambiguous.
