Case 3: Polictical Imperatives

Political Imperatives, Take Two

Bringing about change in humanity, having awareness of human rights issues throughout the world gets to access to information and the information age. Movement from the enlightenment project, a philosophy where knowledge is gained by the impartial, objective observer to the 21^st enlightenment where the world moves to a consciousness of the empathic society.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC7ANGMy0yo

Human Rights, Free Speech and Freedom of Expression

What role do individual citizen journalists play in shining light on human rights abuses?

Individual Citizen journalists have the ability to bring to light issues that would not have been told otherwise. They can insight an emotional response from the population that can impact decision makers by either informing them of the existence of an issue or by causing them to respond to issues that they themselves may have created.

Here is a link to a website that is called Witness. Witness uses video to open the eyes to the world about human rights violations.

http://www.witness.org/index.html

Here is an example of a video campaign that was used to bring light to an incident that happened in Oakland California

http://hub.witness.org/oscar-grant

In what ways are citizen bloggers challenging mainstream media in creating awareness about social and political issues?

They are presenting a view that is different than that of the mainstream media as they are not filtered by anyone, nor do they have any limitations in terms of the information that they share. On the other hand, there is no one validating the information. A lot of the information is personal in nature with regards to opinions the lens through which they present the information.