Kony 2012 campaigners announce sequel video | World news. The activist group behind the Kony 2012 viral video has said it will launch a sequel on Tuesday. The California-based group Invisible Children promised that its new film would give more details and context than the first, which urged grassroots campaigners to pressure politicians and the military to hunt the notorious Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony. The half-hour film broke records with more than 100m views in less than a week, but provoked fierce debate and criticism over its slick style and simplification of the issues.
It caused anger in northern Uganda, where a public screening descended into scuffles and stone-throwing. Jedidiah Jenkins, Invisible Children's director of ideology, told Reuters a Kony 2012 Part II video was expected to be released on Tuesday. The sequel would also include an update about the "Cover the Night" awareness-raising events scheduled for 20 April, according to a blogpost by Invisible Children. On Saturday, Jenkins said: "He is on the road to recovery. The Viral Kony 2012 Video.
The Viral Kony 2012 Video The 30-minute video released last week by the San Diego-based group Invisible Children calling for action against Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony provided striking evidence that young adults and their elders at times have different news agendas and learn about news in different ways. Those ages 18-29 were much more likely than older adults to have heard a lot about the “Kony 2012” video and to have learned about it through social media than traditional news sources. Indeed, a special analysis of posts in Twitter showed that it was by far the top story on the platform. Moreover, younger adults were also more than twice as likely as older adults to have watched the video itself on YouTube or Vimeo.
As of March 13, the video had been viewed more than 76 million times on YouTube and 16 million times on Vimeo, making it one of the most viewed videos of all time on those sites. All those figures above apply to all adults in those age cohorts. 'Kony 2012' Becomes the Most Viral Video in History [STUDY] With more than 100 million views in six days, Kony 2012, a 30-minute documentary about Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony, has become the most viral video in history, according to one researcher. In a blog post, Visible Measures found Kony outpaced other record-setting viral videos. For instance, the video featuring Susan Boyle on Britain’s Got Talent in 2009, hit 70 million views in six days. Old Spice’s “Responses” campaign didn’t hit 70 million until five months after it launched. Visible Measures got its figures by tracking not just the original Vimeo version of Kony, but also responses to the video.
By March 8, three days after Kony went live, there were 200 such responses, which ran six minutes on average. Despite the rapid rise of Kony 2012, the video has brought a shower of criticism to Invisible Children, the organization behind it. SEE ALSO: Documentarians: KONY 2012 Achieved Its Goal Invisible Children responded with a blog post outlining its expenses. Kony 2012: A View from Northern Uganda. Evelyn Amony was kidnapped by the Lord's Resistance Army at age12 and was first raped by its leader, Joseph Kony, at 15.
One of dozens of girls selected to be Kony's concubines, she had three children including Mercy, 14 months, before escaping to freedom in January 2005. Photographed March 31, 2006, in Gulu, Uganda, by Dan Morrison. The release this week of the video Kony 2012 and a viral social media campaign by the American NGO Invisible Children has jacked awareness of the vicious Ugandan rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army into the stratosphere. It’s also provoked a significant backlash from experts who say the film is simplistic, manipulative, and that it narcissistically focuses on the filmmakers themselves over their African subjects. Invisible Children has responded to some of that criticism, and debate over the film and its prescriptions continues across the web, much of it under the Twitter hashtags #Kony2012 and #StopKony.
Anywar Ricky Richard So, how can this be done? Visible Children - KONY 2012 Criticism. Thoughts for young people from the author of Visible Children. Since this all started two weeks ago, I’ve occasionally been criticized for the attention my blog has received on the basis that, as a university student, my opinion shouldn’t be as widely-read as it has been.
I guess the logic is that because I’m a “young person”, my opinion is less valuable, or “misinformed and naive”, as Invisible Children’s PR firm eloquently described it. Actually, the best and most thought-provoking questions I’ve received came from “young people” in a series of discussions I had over Skype with students in Pennsylvania. “What are you actually doing to help?” , they asked. The message Invisible Children is sending is that anybody can change the world, and it’s easy. Anybody can change the world, but it’s difficult. Doing what Invisible Children wants may have an impact, but real, thoughtful activism – actual world-changing – is difficult. . ~ Grant Oyston. Unpacking Kony 2012. Posted by Ethan on Mar 8th, 2012 in Africa | 91 comments Traduzido para o Português por Natália Mazotte e Bruno Serman This Monday, March 5th, the advocacy organization Invisible Children released a 30 minute video titled “Kony 2012“.
The goal of the video is to raise awareness of Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army rebel group, a wanted war criminal, in the hopes of bringing him to justice. By Thursday morning, March 8th, the video had been viewed more than 26 million times, and almost 12 million more times on Vimeo. (Needless to say, those numbers are now much higher.) It has opened up a fascinating and complicated discussion not just about the Lord’s Resistance Army and instability in northern Uganda and bordering states, but on the nature of advocacy in a digital age.
Who’s Joseph Kony, and who are Invisible Children? Kony and the LRA distinguished themselves from other rebel groups by their bizarre ideology and their violent and brutal tactics. Sound familiar? Why Kony 2012 Went Viral. The Kony 2012 video by the U.S. non-profit Invisible Children is now the most viral video of all time. The video relies upon a very simple narrative and two opposing forces: The white American male hero wants to defeat the bad guy, Ugandan war lord Joseph Kony, and make the future better for children, especially his own. The video is narrated entirely by the Invisible Children Co-Founder Jason Russell. Kony 2012 has succeeded in part because it echoes and amplifies a classic narrative that America buys into and loves: The white male savior, swooping into Africa to save "those poor people," and coming out as the hero, the masculine father figure whose blonde-haired, blue-eyed five-year-old boy will one day do for the world what his dad tried to do.
As such, the video hardly gives a voice to the people it is trying to "save," instead painting them as helpless one-dimensional victims exploited for the purposes of cajoling a Western audience out of its Internet-amplified apathy. Wait, what? Kony screening provokes anger in Uganda. KONY 2012 Official Trailer - MUST WATCH. KONY 2012 - IN ITALIANO. Jason Russell, #Kony2012 Director, Is Detained and Hospitalized. Al Jazeera Reporter's iPhone Documentary on the Syrian Uprising. Last week, Al Jazeera aired a 25-minute, first-person video piece on the Syrian uprising, captured by an undercover correspondent. As my colleagues Anne Barnard and Hwaida Saad reported, Syrian authorities have engaged in an expanding crackdown as the yearlong uprising continues, briefly detaining members of one of the country’s most moderate opposition groups in central Damascus on Sunday. Reuters reported that a heavy firefight had broken out early Monday in a neighborhood of the capital, citing residents reached by phone.
Al Jazeera’s video, which aired as an episode of its program “People & Power,” highlights the difficulties that journalists have encountered in trying to deliver firsthand accounts of the conflict. Al Jazeera explained on its Web site how the reporter was able to gather his material. With Al Jazeera cameras banned inside Syria, it was too difficult and dangerous to openly use a video camera, but he was able to use his mobile phone. The reporter’s name was not given. What we’re watching: Kony 2012, “BLA BLA” and the extra point.
KONY 2012: How Social Media Fueled the Most Viral Video of All Time. Lessons Learned From #Kony2012. Ugandans Angry at KONY 2012. The non-profit organization Invisible Children and its viral video Kony 2012, which has become an international sensation in the past couple of weeks, is continuing to stir controversy. Not only have critics raised questions surrounding Invisible Children and its methodologies, but numerous reports are now verifying that local Ugandans too are in fact angry about the campaign. The non-profit African Youth Initiative Network (AYINET), which calls itself an organization to help rehabilitate victims of war, organized a public screening in the town of Lira in northern Uganda on Tuesday night. Northern Uganda was one of the regions worst affected by Joseph Kony's rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).
While the Kony 2012 film has become the most viral video in history, this was the first time that most Ugandans in Uganda — the majority of whom have no access to the internet — saw the film firsthand. Another local Ugandan stated, "We wanted to see our local people who are killed.