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From the beginning, the tragedy fit a generation used to living in public through YouTube and social-networking sites. Now members of that generation were killing, dying and mourning in public. When graduate student Jamal Albarghouti saw police drawing guns near Norris Hall, he took out his camera phone and--in the signal impulse of the information-sharing age--ran toward the scene...
Through the brief, shaky video, which Albarghouti uploaded to CNN.com millions of TV and Web viewers crouched beside him as he hit the pavement and heard the metered, methodical gunshots. On the V.T. campus, students texted and IMed while trapped in classrooms; they posted news on Facebook; at Aol.com they shared Cho's unsettling creative-writing assignments...
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