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In defence of the bandwagon: Kony 2012 makers should check their facts, but so should critics

“Kony2012” is trending worldwide on Twitter. Really, people? Why couldn’t we just stick to making tweets about the Kardashians, Justin Bieber, Angelina Jolie’s leg and sexist hashtags? Snark aside, I knew who Joseph Kony was before this week, but then again I’m not the target market of the Kony 2012 campaign. If what Invisible Children [...]
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Education, advocacy and emotion in a connected world

Since the 30-minute KONY 2012 documentary was uploaded to YouTube on 5th March it has (at the time of writing) been viewed 7,377,102 times.1 Most people who watched the documentary were in North America and Australia. As Jason Russell, the narrator tells us, these people are their target audience. The aim of the documentary is [...]
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