Chances are if you're on Twitter and/or Facebook, you've been exhorted to watch Invisible Children's half-hour documentary drawing attention to Uganda's Lords Resistance Army's leader Joseph Kony and his all together terrible record of human rights abuses.
But what real change can a widespread social media campaign about an issue like this have? It's not like the UN isn't aware of Kony.
And the organization behind the video, Invisible Children, is now finding itself being looked at more closely.
Is watching a video and saying you're outraged and that asking your online friends and followers to do the same just a way of feeling good about yourself for being outraged, without having to do anything at all? Can social media spreading this message really accomplish anything, or is making people educated better than doing nothing at all?
But what real change can a widespread social media campaign about an issue like this have? It's not like the UN isn't aware of Kony.
And the organization behind the video, Invisible Children, is now finding itself being looked at more closely.
Is watching a video and saying you're outraged and that asking your online friends and followers to do the same just a way of feeling good about yourself for being outraged, without having to do anything at all? Can social media spreading this message really accomplish anything, or is making people educated better than doing nothing at all?
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