Social Media and International Development: Academic Texts
Here are a just a few of the academic texts and papers that I believe are informative for anyone studying social media’s relationship with international development. TEXT BOOKS General – Communication / Social Media Castells,…
Africa for Norway – a social media viral success story
If you are interested in social media for international development many of you will have already seen the fantastic Africa for Norway video which I mentioned in a previous blog. I was interested in how this video…
Live Below the Line and Social Media
Yesterday I met with Stephen Brown from the Global Poverty Project who manages the Live Below the Line Challenge in the UK. Last month I wrote another blog post about the campaign as I was…
Can Ricky Gervais’s irony save the world?
With the recent video’s by Mama Hope and Africa for Norway it seems like there is a new genre of ironic videos being produced for International Development. The first ridicules Hollywood stereotypes of African Men…
What makes a video go viral? – The success of Mama Hope
Ten months ago Mama Hope, a charity based in San Francisco, released a video African Men: Hollywood Stereotypes. The film was produced a couple of months after the Kony 2012 video and was designed to…
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How Charity:Water use Social Media
I was perusing Twitter the other day and came across a presentation by Paull Young (@paullyoung) who is Director of Digital Engagement at Charity:Water and was inspired by his talk. Charity:Water are a relatively new charity which started in 2006. I’ve seen a couple of their videos before…
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Welcome to Social Media for Development
Having set this blog up in the last hour I thought I would literally blurt out why I’ve started a blog. I…
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Four very different videos for development
As I’ve intimated in other blogs, I tend to watch a lot of development videos. Here are four of my favourites, for differing reasons. What’s your favourite – and are there any others you would recommend? 1 in 3 Women – Water Aid Africa for…
Tearfund Nudge App
I just spotted a tweet from the Tearfund earlier today – “We’ve created #Nudge, our new campaigning app. Learn the issues, get the facts, change the world bit.ly/VKeGCc“. Sounded intriguing so I clicked the link which took me to the page below This page told…