NEW MEDIA AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES

EMPOWERED CITIZENS

What are the new media?

What about new media and human rights?

1943

6 million murdered

… and the world response?

“We didn’t know”

1955- 1975

VIETNAM – Kim Phuc Village 1972

1968

Warszaw Pact Invasion to Czechoslovakia

1994

RWANDA - 800 000 slaughtered in 100 days

“Exterminate the cockroaches”

2008

KENYA

2009

Iran “ ” Revolution

Neda

2010

Haiti earthquake – 240 000 dead within seconds

They say that history is written by the victors. But now, before the victors win,there is a chance to scream out with a text message that will not vanish.What would we know about what passed between Turks and Armenians,between Germans and Jews, if every one of them had had the chance,before the darkness, to declare for all time: “I was here, and this is what happened to me”?

ANAND GIRIDHARADAS, New York Times, March 2010

2015 ?