Tag: infowar

• Xinjiang: Protests continue into third day

  [Cross-posted from the WITNESS Hub Blog.] Xinhua is reporting that more than 150 people have died in the clashes in Urumqi since 5th July, and more than 1,000 have been injured. Riot police have been deployed to quell the protests, which began over the perceived mishandling by local authorities of a fight at a toy factory…

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  07/07/2009

  Activism, Human rights, Journalism, Video, Work

  breaking news, china, Hub Blog, infowar, protest, Uighur, urumqi, uyghur, WITNESS, xinjiang

• InfoWar over Gaza

  [Originally published here on the WITNESS Hub blog.] The information war being fought over Gaza is one of the most commented-on aspects of the current crisis – Israeli military footage, Twitter updates, Facebook groups, media interviews, blogs, the use of megaphone software like GIYUS.  It’s not a new phenomenon, but the extent to which Israel’s government has made bypassing, controlling…

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  07/01/2009

  Human rights, Journalism, Media, Technology, Work

  btselem, comics, graphic novels, Hub Blog, information war, infowar, joe sacco, nablus, palestine, propaganda, social media, WITNESS

• Video exposes child-soldier’s identity

  [Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] If you’ve seen the guidelines for this site, you’ll know that there are types of footage that we wouldn’t post, and circumstances surrounding the shooting of particular videos that mean we wouldn’t even link to them. Today’s post is about one of those…

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  20/10/2006

  Human rights, Journalism, Technology, Video, Work

  anonymisation, children, childsoldiers, conflict, ethics, globalvoices, Hub Blog, informedconsent, infowar, online video, pilot, projects, propaganda, sri lanka, WITNESS