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KieranCoeFirstPaper 16 - 23 Jul 2012 - Main.KieranCoe
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< | The past two decades have borne witness to an increase in public access to mobile digital video recording and data sharing technology. We may be in the incipient stages of a substantial shift in the balance of power with respect to whether a small cadre of powerful individuals and institutions may control the flow and dissemination of information in society. Citizens of the connected electronic society may be able to exercise liberties in expression and press to a greater extent than members of prior generations, if the global mass media corporations, governments, and other potentially nefarious entities cannot stymie their emergent freedom of action. | >
> | The past two decades have borne witness to an increase in public access to mobile digital video recording and data sharing technology. We may be in the incipient stages of a substantial shift in the balance of power with respect to whether a small cadre of powerful individuals and institutions can control the flow and dissemination of information in society. Citizens of the connected electronic society may be able to exercise liberties in expression and press to a greater extent than members of prior generations, if the global mass media corporations, governments, and other potentially nefarious entities cannot stymie their emergent freedom of action. | | | Individuals Empowered | |
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< | Two technological developments, among myriad others, have contributed to ushering in a potential change in how many people obtain visual data about events occurring far away. Cameras shrunk precipitously and started to be routinely attached to phones that a sizable proportion of people carry with them wherever they go. Blogs, social media websites, and other online portals arose that facilitated the propagation of information between individuals. These changes have made it cheap and easy for a wide swath of people in even moderate income societies to record and share media with an unlimited number of other people passing it through corporate or state filtering, editing, and censoring. | >
> | Two technological developments, among myriad others, have contributed to ushering in a potential change in how many people obtain visual data about events occurring far away. Cameras shrunk precipitously and started to be routinely attached to phones that a sizable proportion of people carry with them wherever they go. Blogs, social media websites, and other online portals arose that facilitated the propagation of information between individuals. These changes have made it cheap and easy for a wide swath of people in even moderate income societies to record and share media with an unlimited number of other people passing it through corporate or state filtering, editing, and censoring. There have been technological developments affecting the sharing of not just video, but all forms of media. I focus on video here because of its strong ability to quickly influence hearts and minds, regardless of its factual accuracy in depicting a situation. | | | Citizen-recorded videos of government abuses, spread rapidly through the internet, have informed the public about events corporate or state media may choose not to cover. (See video of the Agha-Soltan’s killing in Iran, which became a rallying point for regime opposition demonstrations, prhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2009/jun/23/iran-neda). In the recent past, it was not quite as simple for a simple video record of state-sponsored abuse to reach a mass audience. |
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