Case Studies — Online Video

Creating a video and sharing it online is a popular way to generate support and awareness for your cause. YouTube is the most widely used video-sharing website.

The Movements.org case study series identifies and evaluates campaigns that have harnessed technology for social change in their communities or that have demonstrated degree of success that others could learn from. Think you or someone you know should be featured?! Share your work here.

#FreeAlaa

Posted by Rachel Silver in Advocacy, Arrest and Harrasment, Blogging, Build Awareness , Plan and Strategize, Keep Supporters Engaged, Middle East & North Africa, Social Networking, Facebook, Twitter, Online Video, YouTube


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Greenpeace uses Barbie and Ken to Curb Deforestation

Posted by Rachel Silver in Build Awareness , Very Wired, Humor, Social Networking, Facebook, Twitter, Online Video, YouTube


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Using Facebook to Protest and Overturn an Unfair Egyptian Data Usage Policy

Posted by Taylor Berry in Build Awareness , Humor, Middle East & North Africa, Mobilize, Social Networking, Facebook, Online Video


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Can You Solve This? Interactive Campaign for the Right to Education in #Iran

Posted by Rachel Silver in Advocacy, Build Awareness , Middle East & North Africa, Social Networking, Facebook, Online Video, YouTube


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The YES MEN Spoof the WTO with Fake Website

Posted by Taylor Berry in Build Awareness , Global, Humor, Online Video


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Azeri Activists Get Creative to Protest Government Waste

Posted by Jimmy Carr in Arrest and Harrasment, Asia, Build Awareness , Citizen Media, Humor, Online Video, YouTube


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Using Online Video and Blogs to Build Public Awareness in Egypt

Posted by Jennifer Cassidy in Access to Information, Blogging, Build Awareness , Citizen Media, Middle East & North Africa, Online Video, YouTube


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Using Online Videos to Spread the Word About Police Brutality in Egypt

Posted by Susannah Vila in Build Awareness , Humor, Middle East & North Africa, Online Video

During the last 5 years of Hosni Mubarak's presidency, Aalam Wassef used online video to spread awareness about police brutality
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El Chiguirre Bipolar

Posted in Blogging, Moderately Wired, Partly Free, Latin America, Social Networking, Facebook, Twitter, Online Video

Despite encroaching censorship, a satirical political blog gains a huge hollowing in Venezuela.
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Using SMS Mass Messaging to Raise Money for Flood Relief in Pakistan

Posted by Umme Kulsoom in Emergency Response, Fundraising, Middle East & North Africa, Mobiles, SMS, Social Networking, Facebook, Online Video, YouTube


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How a Documentary Flm Led to New Legislation

Posted by Chris Sarette and Susannah Vila in Africa, Very Wired, North America, Online Video, YouTube

A 45-minute documentary film grows into an organization that turns high schoolers into activists and helps to enact legislation.
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Viva Favela

Posted by Rodrigo Noguiera and Susannah Vila in Free, Citizen Media, Moderately Wired, Latin America, Online Video

Open-source tools, inexpensive cameras and Web training to produce citizen media from Brazil
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