Friday, 22 January 2010

Video activism

With the ever increasing availability of video cameras and equipment, video has become one of the most powerful weapons in a protesters armoury. Over the last few years video activism has grown to a whole new level, manly down to the birth of you tube and other video sharing web sites. Thanks to you tube protesters can now air the opinions and issues and document wrong doings. Protesters believe that introduction of video has deterred police violence towards protesters as at anytime some one could be recording there actions. One of the major ideals of video activism is that many people feel it doesn’t water down or alter the message of the people; they feel that everyone’s opinion counts for something. Video Activism is a big feature of today’s world. More and more concerned people, all over the world, are turning to video activism and making there own videos and by-passing the established, corporate-owned press.

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