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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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).
Sam Gregory
March 17, 2012
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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
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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
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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.
Sam Gregory
October 24, 2011
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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
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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
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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