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Seeing Aylan Kurdi, Adam Ward and Alison Parker
Program Director Sam Gregory reflects on discussions around the treatment of images of horror, such as recent images of deceased refugee children on a Turkish beach and the on-camera shooting spree in Virginia, in the fight for human rights.
September 3, 2015
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Video, tech and Internet for social good: Panels to pick at SXSW 2016
WITNESS' top picks for SXSW 2016 panels.
August 19, 2015
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How Can Hyperlapse Videography Be Used for Human Rights?
Hyperlapse is a videography approach that combines timelapse with motion, often with a first-person perspective. How could it be used for human rights?
February 3, 2015
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Do We Need a Dedicated Repository for Human Rights Media?
A dedicated online video-sharing site or database could show the breadth and scale of human rights violations worldwide, and enable coordinated action.
January 30, 2015
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The Power of Citizen Witnesses – and How WITNESS is Strengthening Their Impact
From creation, sharing, management of your video, to preservation and usage, and with an eye to the ethical questions, WITNESS is thinking holistically about how best to support the millions of citizen witnesses to human rights abuse.
September 23, 2014
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Images of Horror: Whose Roles and What Responsibilities?
Recent examples of graphic images circulating online point to critical questions for commercial social media platforms, news outlets and citizens.
September 18, 2014
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WITNESS at SXSW 2014: Talking Media, Mobile, Technology and Human Rights
Details for the two panels WITNESS is participating in and our suggestions a few more to check out at this year's conference.
March 7, 2014
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How An Eyewitness Mode Helps Activists (and Others) Be Trusted
Individuals and social networks can both benefit from functionality that would allow video uploaders to add metadata, enhancing the trustworthiness of their media.
March 3, 2014
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You’re Invited to Get TOGETHER on Sept. 28 to Explore Co-presence For Good
Join Sam Gregory of WITNESS at this co-presence for good camp in Palo Alto, Sat. September 28th.
September 26, 2013
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Co-presence: A New Way to Bring People Together for Human Rights Activism
How can we use the sense of being together with other people in a remote environment to drive concrete, productive actions and engagement for human rights change?
September 23, 2013
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Visual Anonymity and YouTube’s New Blurring Tool
Today YouTube announced a new tool within their upload editor that enables people to blur the faces within the video, and then publish a version with blurred faces.
July 18, 2012
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WITNESS and Storyful Announce New YouTube Channel For Human Rights
WITNESS is pleased to announce The Human Rights Channel, a new channel on YouTube. In collaboration with Storyful, the channel is a platform to tell breaking stories through the lenses of citizen journalists that will change the way we view, share and engage human rights video.
May 24, 2012
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Kony 2012: Juggling Advocacy, Audience and Agency When Using #Video4Change
"Kony 2012" is now the most rapidly disseminated human rights video ever. In six days it reached an aggregate 100 million views – faster than other pop culture phenomena like Susan Boyle (9 days), Rebecca Black (45 days) and ‘Charlie Bit My Finger’ (445 days).
March 17, 2012
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WITNESS, Technology and #Video4Change at #SXSW
WITNESS is at #SXSWInteractive, one of the world's largest conferences focused on interactive technologies and online innovation.
March 10, 2012
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Promoting Cameras Everywhere Recommendations at RightsCon and Stanford University
This week, WITNESS is busy in the Bay Area of California where we'll be at multiple public meetings discussing ideas in our Cameras Everywhere leadership initiative. We're speaking on a panel at the first Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference, attending the first advisory board meeting of the exciting new EngineRoom initiative, and we're presenting at Stanford University's Liberation Technology Seminar on the "Cameras Everywhere" report and the tools we're developing in WITNESS Labs.
October 24, 2011