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from lunamagazine.com.au
Free is one of
my favorite words and I like everything that is free. I can watch film, movie
or documentary from around the world for free in social media, example Facebook
and YouTube. There are more than 1.2 billion people using social network sites
around the world in February 2012 and it is estimated will be increase to 1.5
billion people by the end of 2012 (eMarketer 2012).
Kony 2012 had
captured a lot of attention from people around the world since it was published
in 5 March 2012. There are two videos (Kony 2012 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc
and Kony 2012 part II: Beyond Famous http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_Ue6REkeTA&feature=youtu.be
) about Kony in You tube and vimoe. More than 100 million people had viewed
these documentaries. Kony 2012 film is most popular among teenage girls ages 13
to 17, young men 18 to 24, and teenage boys ages 13 to 17 (Netburn, 2012). The
main purpose of the videos is to give information about the cruelness of Joseph
Kony to Ugandan, encourage and increasing awareness of people around the world to
participate or take action about this issue. The LRA began its attacks in
Uganda in the 1980s, when Kony sought to overthrow the government (The Times of
India, 2012). Kony is the first guy indicted by the ICC due to his bad act such
as abducting, raped, forced children to hold a gun and kill people. Kony had
kidnapped more than 104.000 children and had 88 wives over last 20 years
(Market Watch 2012).
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from: ihrg.org
According to
Duval (2012), YouTube has advantages such as it ability to broadcast to an
audience of millions people a cross the world can watch it as long as there is
an Internet connection. On the other hand it is easier for people to understand
the main information of the video or documentary due to the combination of text
and image. Invisible
children/Jason Russell has chose a suitable media in publishing Kony 2012
because once a video uploaded every people can viewed it.
(349 words)
References:
Duval, S 2012,
The Benefit of Using Youtube, viewed 10 June 2012 http://articles.submityourarticle.com/Steve-Duval-7594/twitter-97888.php
eMarketer 2012,
Where is the world are the hottest social networking counties, viewed 10 June
2012 http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1008870
Market Watch
2012, Kony 2012 Book Gathers the Facts About the Phenomenon That Transfixed the
World, viewed 9 June 2012 http://www.marketwatch.com/story/kony-2012-book-gathers-the-facts-about-the-phenomenon-that-transfixed-the-world-2012-05-16
Netburn, D 2012
Kony 2012: Viral video has 50 millions views, mostly by teens, Los Angeles
Times, 8 March, viewed 10 June 2012 http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/08/business/la-fi-tn-kony-2012-50-million-viewers-teens-20120308
The Times Of
India 2012, Kony 2012: Video on African dictator goes viral, newspaper, viewed
10 June 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/Kony-2012-Video-on-African-dictator-goes-viral/articleshow/12194689.cms
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