Seeing Human Rights Video Activism as a Proxy Profession

As video becomes an important tool to expose injustice, an examination of how human rights organizations are seeking to professionalize video activism. Visual imagery is at the heart of humanitarian and human rights activism, and video has become a key tool in these efforts. The Saffron Revolution i...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2021
Series:Information Policy
Subjects:
law
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