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Video Exposes Police Abuse in Venezuela (Or is it Mexico? Or Colombia?) One video's journey across Latin American protest movements underscores the challenge of monitoring activism online. WITNESS February 25, 2014
Documentary Films I’d Bet On To Get An Oscar Nomination Based on social buzz, colleagues’ input, reviews, watching the shortlist films, and media/PR coverage below are my picks to get an Oscar nod (views are my own, not WITNESS'). WITNESS January 15, 2014
It’s That Time of Year for Predictions As the social media manager at the nonprofit, WITNESS, here are my comments on some of the social media predictions for 2014. WITNESS January 9, 2014
L6g49CARAAhP660rO9DCn4W3L: Email and Chat Encryption Basics for Activists Activists everywhere face the violations of their right to privacy especially in their online communications. We share basics of encryption that may help keep you, your networks and your communications safer. WITNESS October 16, 2013
Syria Untold: Refocusing on the Civil Society Movement Inside Syria This new project aims to frame information on Syria within its historical, political and social context, and to focus on Syrian civil society's ongoing actions to keep its calls for reform alive. WITNESS September 18, 2013
Being Social on Social Media Two interns with WITNESS' social media team learned not only how to effectively share information with our followers, but how to create a strategy for engagement. WITNESS August 13, 2013
10 Tips for Filming Protests – Turkish Version Now Featuring Images An image-based version of our "10 Tips for Filming Protests" in Turkish WITNESS June 13, 2013
Marshaling Social Media to Tell Stories of Death Row Innocence Too many cooks spoil the broth? Not anymore, says One for Ten producer Laura Shacham. She's hitting the social media superhighway to bring hundreds of voices to the stories of death row exonerees. WITNESS February 22, 2013
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). Sam Gregory March 17, 2012
A Few Reasons Activsts Shouldn’t be Banned from the Internet Last month on Human Rights Day (December 10th) I wrote an opinion piece for the HuffingtonPost about the increasingly important role technology companies and platforms are playing in the human rights landscape. Yvette Alberdingk Thijm January 23, 2012
Video Advocacy Example: Bullying, Social Media & Suicide Teen suicide in the United States has been on the rise. One cause is that teenagers have been increasingly bullied in school and through the use of social media. There are so many ways kids can post what is going in in their lives, whether it is via Twitter, Facebook, Google +, or a YouTube video. WITNESS November 2, 2011
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. Sam Gregory October 24, 2011
Watch: Cameras Everywhere – Presentation at Re:Publica 2011 A couple of weeks ago I presented at Re:Publica, the largest social media conference in Germany. Since the conference gives a generous 50 minutes to its speakers I had the opportunity not only to talk about WITNESS and our work in general (first 10 minutes or so), but also to explain in some depth the video advocacy challenges and opportunities surfaced by events in the Middle East and North Africa as well as some of the emerging questions in our Cameras Everywhere initiative. Namely, how do human rights values and practicalities intersect in the new ubiquitous video moment? Sam Gregory May 12, 2011
A Look Back at a (half) Year in Video For Change You may recall that in mid-May we launched this blog. It's been just over six months now and I thought it would be useful to take stock of what we've accomplished since May and, of course, to look forward to what we hope to do in 2011 - with you. Matisse Bustos Hawkes December 28, 2010
The Ethical Engagements of Human Rights Social Media The explosion of digital media on human rights pushes us all to rethink how documentary film ethics apply in a more networked, social media-driven era. Sam Gregory November 22, 2010