The death of teenager, Anna Svidersky in a small American town was brought to worldwide attention, through a MySpace tribute account that was created by her friends.
Although Anna's death did receive conventional media attention (newspapers, news TV programmes etc), it was only at a local level from a Vancouver, Washington newspaper.
In a mission to tell Anna's tragic story and keep her memory alive, her friends circulated the news of her death via MySpace.
Journalist Tim Jonze from The Guardian reports how the news of Anna's death was spread through the popular social network service and how this caused thousands of people who didn't even know Anna to mourn her death.
The use of MySpace to inform people of Anna's death further illustrates the shift away from conventional news sources and the increase of citizen journalism (in this case Anna's friends were the journalists).
Click here to view the tribute account and here to view Tim Jonze's article.
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