Seeing Human Rights Video Activism as a Proxy Profession

• Main Author: Ristovska, Sandra (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2021
• Series: Information Policy
• Subjects: Political oppression & persecution; The arts: general issues; Demonstrations & protest movements; activism; video; images; visual evidence; verification; proxy profession; human rights; journalism; law; advocacy; politics; policy; new institutionalism; professionalization; open source investigation; witnessing; Amnesty International; Human Rights Watch; WITNESS; Syrian Archive; Forensic Architecture
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...