...Home Page» Social Issues Kony 2012 In: Social Issues Kony 2012 Kony 2012: Critical Analysis I heard about the Kony 2012 video the day after it came out through a game I was playing online. It was all over Facebook and 40% of the people that was using Twitter were talking about Kony. The time I viewed the video, it had already gotten 20 million views and after 2 days it had gotten over 50 million views. It’s extremely surprising that a video would become so popular in just a day or so. People are nonstop talking about the issue and it’s still going viral all around the web. The age demographic of the people that are passionate about this are definitely the teenagers because they are more connected through the internet so through them it easy to spread the message. The video itself was a huge factor in order to the message across because of its content, the purpose, the format of the video, and the audience. The main objective of the video was the content, to tell people about the LRA leader Joseph Kony and his criminal activities. The purpose, format and the audience played a huge role in making the video viral. The format of the video was very emotional and dramatic, which makes the audience to keep watching. Their way to get the message across through to the audience was extremely successful. The audience became really emotional through the video that they had to let other people know about it. So it started to go viral in Facebook and twitter. It was all over...
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...Kony 2012: Critical Analysis I heard about the Kony 2012 video the day after it came out through a game I was playing online. It was all over Facebook and 40% of the people that was using Twitter were talking about Kony. The time I viewed the video, it had already gotten 20 million views and after 2 days it had gotten over 50 million views. It’s extremely surprising that a video would become so popular in just a day or so. People are nonstop talking about the issue and it’s still going viral all around the web. The age demographic of the people that are passionate about this are definitely the teenagers because they are more connected through the internet so through them it easy to spread the message. The video itself was a huge factor in order to the message across because of its content, the purpose, the format of the video, and the audience. The main objective of the video was the content, to tell people about the LRA leader Joseph Kony and his criminal activities. The purpose, format and the audience played a huge role in making the video viral. The format of the video was very emotional and dramatic, which makes the audience to keep watching. Their way to get the message across through to the audience was extremely successful. The audience became really emotional through the video that they had to let other people know about it. So it started to go viral in Facebook and twitter. It was all over the internet, such as YouTube, Vimeo, Mega upload, kony2012.com, invisiblechildren...
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...Kony 2012 Imagine constantly fearing of being abducted and killed. And fearing that you could lose a family member. That's what is constantly on the minds of the children in Uganda. One day I was surfing YouTube when I came across a video called Kony 2012. Kony 2012 is a video campaign targeted to spread the word of a man named Joseph Kony. Joseph Kony is a leader of a rebel group called Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). Hundreds of children are abducted by LRA, given weapons, and forced to fight. One of the main people shown in the YouTube campaign is a Uganda child named Jacob. Jacob's brother was abducted and killed by the LRA. The director of the campaign promised Jacob that he would stop Kony. The goal of the Youtube campaign is to stop Kony like promised to Jacob. You may be wondering how could this be achieved? Well, Kony had actually been abducting children for almost 30 years. And until now, nobody really knew about it. This is where the YouTube campaign comes in. When the video was released, in less than two days it went viral. People all over the world began to spread the word. People on Facebook and Twitter were posting, "KONY 2012." This is exactly what the video wanted people to do: shed some light on Kony. Before the Kony issue was uncovered, the U.S. government didn't really do anything to help bring Kony to justice. This is because it didn't really seem like a big enough issue to become involved in at the time. When the video viral and it started to raise...
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...How did the video Kony 2012 by Invisible Children Inc. become so popular within a few days and why was the hype over just as quickly? Abstract This short paper is concerned with the popularity of the video Kony 2012. We will both analyze the popularity of and the criticism on the content of the video, by examining how the video became so popular, focusing on the usage of social media, and how the criticism on the video evolved. Next to the explanation of the popularity of the video and the criticism on the video, we will address the positive and negative aspects of Kony 2012. Introduction There is one video on YouTube, launched on the 5th of March 2012, with more than 93 million views, evidenced to be the “fastest spreading viral video of all time” (Steel in Cavanagh, 2012). This video is named Kony 2012, after the man Joseph Kony, number one criminal in the world (Invisible Children, 2012). Kony 2012 focuses on the war in Northern Uganda, between the Lord’s Resistance Army founded by Joseph Kony and the citizens of Uganda. In 1988, Joseph Kony founded the LRA, with the aim to clean the nation spiritually (Blattman, 2009). Because not many people joined the army by free will, the army started abducting people. When in 1995 the recruitment got stronger and stronger, they started to abduct on a larger scale. From 1995 to 2004 they kidnapped 60,000 to 80,000 younger people (Blattman, 2009). In the video, Joseph Kony is accused of abducting youth, forcing them to kill their parents...
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...film Kony 2012. Jason's goal was to make Joseph Kony famous by encouraging supporters to plaster the United States cities with posters, in order to make the fight against the Lord's Resistance Army an issue of “national interest” to Washington. In the short film Kony 2012 it is said that in Uganda Joseph Kony has abducted an estimate of 66,000 children, some of which have became soldiers or sex slaves. Several Ugandans are out raged about Jason's film because he has mad accusations that numerous things are happening in Uganda right now, and that we need to stop him by 2012. When really Joseph isn't even in Uganda anymore and the war has already subsided. “There has not been a single soul from the Lord's Resistance Army here since 2006. Now we have peace, people are back in their homes, they are planting their fields, they are starting their businesses. That is what people should help us with” (Unknown). Having looked over many articles and videos it shows that Ugandans are upset about Jason's video he has made without any real evidence to back him up on his accusations. Jason didn't even get enough research in to know what Kony's name actually is, it's pronounced “Kohn”. How are we suppose to be convinced by his video if Jason can't even get the name right. “My response to KONY 2012” by Rosebell Kagumire. Rosebell is originally from Uganda she saw that there was a new issue about Joseph Kony by Jason's...
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...viral video project KONY launched pulling in over a million viewers in a matter of a few of weeks (Neylon, 2012) . Helping to raise awareness of child soldering, the KONY project targeted one individual Joseph Kony, a war criminal wanted for many crimes against humanity. In this analysis paper the struggle of child soldiers and how this world wide problem is being handled will be discussed. One question that is often asked is how could this be happening? How is it possible to create a child army? The essence of a child’s innocence can be disfigured into mindless brainwash. “Children affected by armed conflict can be injured or killed, uprooted from their homes and communities, internally displaced or refugees, orphaned or separated from their parents and families, subjected to sexual abuse and exploitation, victims of trauma as a result of being exposed to violence, deprived of education and recreation, at risk of becoming child soldiers.” (Mahcael, 2013) With children being so receptacle to influence due to development not yet reached, it is so much easier to control a child in development rather than an adult that has already achieved a level of independent thinking. Awareness of child soldiers and its effects are being brought to light by various organizations such as Invisible Children and WarChild.org. KONY 2012 which started out as an experiment rallied thousands to Washington DC to discuss what was being done to capture war criminal Joseph Kony and his...
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...There is always two sides to every story ever told, People have been taught to only observe and understand one side of every story. But only observing one side of a story blocks our way of perceiving a event or action taken. There are many examples of how viewing stories from one side can change our perspective on it such as in children’s books, car accidents, and in the kony 2012 project. Every child has grown up reading both nonfiction and fiction childhood stories. Some with animals singing and others with people becoming a hero to save the day. One famous fiction children story is the story of the three little pigs and the big bad wolf. In most cases the story is told from the pig’s point of view of how the wolf ate two of his brothers and blew down their houses made of straw and wood. The wolf was seen as the antagonist between the two. When reading the book you only got one side of the full story and your perception was the same of the pigs, that the wolf was evil. But only recently have authors published books which tell the story from the wolfs point of view. Which helps you develop your own thoughts on how the event really took place. Based on the wolfs perception of the time of day, how it occurred, and the end result of the story of the three little pigs. In the U.S. there are approximately 6,500,000 car accidents per year, all of which involve two or more people. Based on how the accident happened and if there were any witnesses to the event. Affects rejection...
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...La tecnología y la ventaja competitiva. ¿Qué es técnica? ¿Qué es Tecnología? Técnica: es un procedimiento o conjunto de reglas, normas o protocolos, que tienen como objetivo obtener un resultado determinado, ya sea en el campo de la ciencia, de la tecnología, del arte, del deporte, de la educación o en cualquier otra actividad. Tecnología: Tecnología es el conjunto de conocimientos técnicos, ordenados científicamente, que permiten construir objetos y máquinas para adaptar el medio y satisfacer las necesidades de las personas. DIFERENCIAS: - La técnica se da tras procedimientos puestos en práctica al realizar una actividad mientras que la tecnología se da tras procesos que involucran técnicas y conocimientos científicos entre otros. - Las técnicas se usan para llevar a cabo alguna labor o acción, mientras que la tecnología puede ser uno de los medios para realizar esta labor. - Las técnicas han surgido y han sido acompañadas por el hombre mientras que la tecnología ha surgido tras el conocimiento y la necesidad de facilitar los medios para vivir. EJEMPLOS: Técnica: - Las técnicas para estudiar: que se pueden dar en diversas y mejoradas maneras usando reglas y procedimientos claves. - La técnica para el deporte: varios deportistas tendrá la manera de encontrar un mejor rendimiento en su cuerpo y en su disciplina. - La técnica Para la música: Donde cada artista tendrá una forma de tocar y realizar con mejor desempeño su interpretación instrumental...
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...title, “WTF was Kony 2012? Considerations for Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (CCCS)”, published in September 2013 in the aforementioned CCCS Journal. I knew immediately that I would enjoy reading this analysis of what I remember to be an incredibly strange media event and public relations explosion, a strange movement in which I did unfortunately partake. Jayson Harsin, the author of this article, carries with him years of experience from multiple universities, with a PhD in Communication from Northwestern University being his most recent degree. He currently sits as vice chair for the division on Philosophy, Theory, and Critique of the International Communication...
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...Classification has always been the main source of the simplifying all of the information that has been found throughout the span of human thought. Science in its most basic from is nothing more than just a quest of knowledge “to seek what regularities there may be”(Sagan) and the existence of that knowledge is explained by classification(Foucault). Today’s society is dominated by an absurd amount of technologically powered apparatuses like: cell phones, computers, tablets, tables, cars, and the list ventures endlessly forward and like every “small step for a man, and one giant leap forward for mankind” there are repercussions(The Space Race). One of the things that changed with the evolution of technology from its primitive state to its more modern version is news; once only told by an unbiased, or at least strived to be, newscasters like Walter Cronkite(Cronkite) and people were forced to watch the whole thing until what they were really interested in came on has now turned into an extremely selective and biased way of reporting the news with outstandingly big downsides that has lead society to be harshly less informed about what is going on around them and more susceptible to having their opinion swayed with possible misclassification of news. By the end of 2010 more people claimed to be receiving their news intake from the internet than from newspapers(Featured in Social Media) and with the simplified access to ...
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...means that you should always have an open mind and should never judge before you know the facts. There are good people and bad people out there. You are the one who needs to make the choice. The first session I went to was called Writing Resistance: The Diary of Anne Frank and the Legacy of Her Work. Anne Frank was a girl who wants everyone to be peaceful like her. Unfortunately you always have the people that find a way to ruin everyone’s lives. For Anne Frank that guy was Adolf Hitler, an anti Semitic rebel. The second session I attended was Our Liberty id Bound Together. The “LRA” as known as the Lord’s Resistance Army which is a large armed movement of resisters against the Acholi people in central Uganda. This group is led by Joseph Kony. Kony considers himself a spirit medium from god. After going to these sessions it made me think about how good people have it that live in the United States compared to these other countries at war right now. Anne Frank was born on June 12th 1929. She was living in Frankfort Germany in a small Jewish community. Adolf Hitler was raised to power in the beginning of the 1930’s. He formed an organization called the Nazis’. The Natzi organization was aimed toward taking out the Jewish genocide. This was happening because Hitler persuaded the Nazis’ that they were purifying Germany. The disabled and homosexuals would also be killed off. The Frank family moved to Amsterdam the summer of...
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...Alcohol consumption by youth in the United States has been a topic of concern for quite some time now. The law passed down in July, 1984 states, the age of 21 years as the minimum age for purchasing and publicly possessing alcoholic beverages . For this assignment I have chosen to critique a fallacy in the argument regarding the dispute of a decrease of the current age of consumption and purchasing alcohol in the United States. I believe the arguments discussed in the selected article to be fallacious because they deal generally with the positive results portrayed as an outcome in the reduction of the legal age of 21 to 18. Through analysis of this article, it will be evident that a reduced legal drinking age is a fallacious and flawed argument. Through research, I discovered a blog that is proactive with the reduction of the current drinking age. The blog states that once people turn 18 they’re considered adults, they’re responsible, and able to handle themselves. It goes on to explain the fact that once you’re 18 you are able to vote, drive, and make the decision to go to the military “why can they be mature and responsible enough to vote for a person who is going to run our country, mature and responsible enough to fly an airplane and go to war for our country, and third be mature and responsible enough to drive a vehicle”. Though this argument may be true and those responsibilities are substantial, this argument still remains fallacious as a whole. I believe the major fallacy...
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...Making Kony Famous 2012 The media has a major impact in the way the people become aware of Kony’s actions in East Africa. They provide information about the enslavement of children and bring awareness to what Kony is doing to the children of Uganda. If it wasn’t for social media, people wouldn’t realize the awful things being done and try to stop it. At age 25, Joseph Kony became the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) (enough, n.d.). The LRA is a violent rebel group that fights against the Ugandan government¬¬ and plans to overthrow the President and create a state based on Kony’s interpretation of the biblical Ten Commandants. If Kony’s goal was to overthrow President Yoweri Museveni and to use Uganda’s children to do it, why wouldn’t...
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...KONY 2012 Jillian Reid EGL 209 4/26/12 Prof. Rampello Introduction In media, information has many different ways of being distorted and formatted for viewers’ persuasion. In this day and age it’s almost impossible not to become a victim of it. How do we identify the fine line between manipulated facts and reality and whether or not we as an audience are being taken advantage of? This issue can strongly relate to the “KONY 2012” video that has been recently released. Many of the facts related to the conflict have been either modified or completely left out. So the question we must ask ourselves is: should Invisible Children, within their KONY 2012 video, be responsible for misrepresenting and diluting the overall complexity of the issue in order to raise money for their campaign? Ugandan History Uganda and Central Africa for that matter; have had conflict for many years. Due to its’ complex history there have been many reasons for the creation of the LRA and other rebel groups. Since 1962 divisions, due to ethnic conflict, armed rebellion has been seen by many groups in Uganda as the sole and legitimate means to express political grievances and attain political power.3In 1986, Yoweri Museveni took power over Uganda through his rebel army called the National Resistance Army (NRA). This was expected to end the division and rebellions during this period and long line of dictatorships but instead his rise to power perpetuated it. Since 1986 there have been at least 22...
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...The main point was to make Joseph Kony famous to the world for what terrible things he was doing to children in Africa in hopes to gain support from other countries to help in the lead to his arrest. Joseph Kony was part of a guerrilla group (LRA) who killed, kidnapped, raped, and beat people. Children also had their body parts forcibly removed by witch doctors. Kony kidnapped children then made girls into sex slaves and boys into child soldiers. The child soldiers were also forced to kill their own...
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