Tag: projects
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AJ Daulerio and the ethics of online video
[Update: here’s the WITNESS report I talk about below, Cameras Everywhere] I read, via The Browser, a GQ profile of AJ Daulerio, editor of Deadspin, sports outpost of Gawker. Here’s an interesting section I didn’t expect to see, relating to the ethics of raw video: Perhaps Daulerio’s darkest moment came last spring, when he posted…
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Your ideas on human rights and free expression on YouTube
[Cross-posted from the YouTube blog] About a month ago, as part of our series of blogs about human rights and video with WITNESS.org, we asked for your thoughts and ideas on some of the key topics on the future of video activism. Now we’re responding to some of your top-voted questions and comments within the Moderator series…
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What do you think about human rights (and your rights) online?
[Cross-posted from the YouTube blog.] Government police shutting down farmer’s protests in China. A tobacco company employing under-age workers in Kazakhstan. Iranian merchants striking to protest tax increases in Tehran. We’ve seen stories like these on our computers and phones every day, and we’ve been documenting many of them on our breaking news feed onCitizentube over the past few…
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Protecting yourself, your subjects and your human rights videos on YouTube
[Originally published on the YouTube blog.] Last week we started a blog series with WITNESS, a human rights video advocacy and training organization, highlighting the role that online video is playing in human rights advocacy. And though activists around the world have shown how powerful YouTube can be as a tool to raise awareness of human…
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Neda Soltan and the power of human rights video
[Originally published on the YouTube blog.] A year ago this weekend, Tehran erupted in protest at the disputed results of Iran’s tenth presidential election. In the severe government crackdown that followed, documented on cameras and uploaded by citizens to YouTube, no moment has been seen more than the death of Neda Agha Soltan, a young musician…
Sameer Padania 