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The 2014 Human Rights Citizen Video – Year in Review
Police brutality, forced evictions, political protests and migrant abuse. A look back at 2014's human rights struggles through citizen footage. What videos did we watch, and what impact did they have?
WITNESS
December 10, 2014
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Will the Syrian Hero Boy Make Us Question Everything We See? (and why don’t we do that already?)
A video described as showing Syrian kids attacked by snipers was revealed to be the work of filmmakers and actors in Malta. It’s only the latest example of online video shared with misleading context.
WITNESS
November 20, 2014
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Metadata Month — October 2014 Tech News Digest
The contextual information that’s embedded in all of your media holds great promise for making good citizen reporting easier to find, verify and put to use.
Morgan Hargrave
November 3, 2014
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Metadata is Powerful, and the NSA Knows It
We believe in the positive power of metadata, but citizens won't use it until they are in control of their own content.
Morgan Hargrave
September 15, 2014
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How Video Metadata Can Help Rhinos, Not Poachers
Information like geotags, a form of metadata, can help poachers find animals to hunt down, or allow the NSA to find out a lot about a potential target's movements. But should that prevent us from using social media entirely?
Morgan Hargrave
May 22, 2014
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What We’re Reading, May 16, 2014
From Afghanistan to Brazil, from trends in journalism to digital security and privacy, see what WITNESS staff are reading about this week.
WITNESS
May 16, 2014
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3 More Days to Support These Knight News Challenge Applications
The Knight Foundation’s Knight News Challenge is currently underway. We share a shortlist from among the 667 projects seeking to strengthen the Internet for free expression and innovation.
Sarah Stein Kerr
April 15, 2014
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The Growing Role of Image Verification in Venezuela’s Protests
A new mobile app addresses the challenge of verifying citizen footage. Plus, a politician brings citizen video of abuse to the Organization of American States.
WITNESS
April 11, 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.
Sam Gregory
March 3, 2014
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Why WITNESS Is Going to RightsCon 2014
Sam Gregory, program director at WITNESS discusses what sets this conference apart and what we hope to accomplish there.
Matisse Bustos Hawkes
February 28, 2014
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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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From Exposure to Evidence: Confronting the Limitations of Digital Video
In an age of information overload and image manipulation, it is no longer enough to simply film—and thereby, expose—injustice. Nor is it enough to simply watch it. New resources from WITNESS and our partners aim to help activists use online video to bring about change.
WITNESS
February 6, 2014
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Verifying Citizen Video: A Case Study from Aleppo – Part 3, Geo-Locating a Video
In the final part of three-part series, we discuss how to use tools like Google Maps to corroborate location in videos through geo-location mapping, verifying critical facts of time and place.
WITNESS
January 9, 2014
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Verifying Citizen Video: A Case Study from Aleppo – Part 2, Creating a Panoramic Image
In part two of our three-part series, we cover how to create a panoramic image from video stills to reveal signifiers unique to the site and event depicted in the video.
WITNESS
January 8, 2014
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Verifying Citizen Video: A Case Study of Destruction from Aleppo
The first in a three-part series investigates how to identify a citizen video for verification. The case study uses a citizen video example taken in Aleppo, Syria.
WITNESS
January 7, 2014
