​When helping takes a back seat to shooting videos of an incident

The Straits Times, page A7

Experts say the practice of onlookers filming incidents like brawls and accidents on their devices instead of taking action is symptomatic of the social media age. Asst Prof Liew Kai Khiun from NTU’s Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information said that these days, the act of witnessing is seen to be equivalent to taking action. Also, filming such videos is probably safer for the witnesses than stepping forward into the limelight, he added.