Visibility Before All; Video and Human Rights  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 402 no. 8767 (Jan. 2012), page 54-55.
Topik: Technological Change; Digital Video; News Media; Demonstrations & Protests; Politics; Trends

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Technology turns anyone with a modern mobile phone into a cameraman--and international broadcaster. This is shaking up newsgathering. During the protests against election fraud in Iran in 2009, Access Now, a human-rights group that is adept with technology, received videos that showed many thousands on the streets, whereas CNN, wary of "unofficial" sources, used government-approved footage that made the protests seem far smaller. Now CNN's "iReport" web page features viewers' pictures alongside the network's own; other news channels also often use amateur footage in their reports. More exotic technology is looming too. Drones that cost only a few hundred dollars, such as the Parrot Quadricopter, can take aerial pictures: these once required an expensive helicopter. Organisers of Occupy protests in America have used these gadgets to spot weaknesses in police lines. This footage is not only fodder for news reports. Images from the funeral in Tunisia of Mohammed Bouazizi, who set himself on fire to protest about his bullying by officials, fed the discontent that ended up toppling the country's president. In Egypt videos of protests showed citizens that they were not alone in their resistance. But images of beatings and police round-ups in Syria have not stopped the authorities from killing an estimated 5,000 people since the protests began last spring.

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