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Camera in Times of Crisis: Focus on Africa
Bingley (UK): Emerald Publishing (2025), 208 pp.
"The presence of cameras, at the forefront of crises, either in the hands of journalists, bystanders or passers-by and sometimes even parties to the crises, has inspired multiple visual notations, commentaries and perspectives. Thus, efforts and resources are channelled towards documenting crises, t
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Unleashing the potential of short-form video: A guide for creators making content to counter extremism
Swansea University (2024), 8 pp.
"This guide is intended to help creators producing or thinking about making shortform video content seeking to counter extremism. Our goal is not to tell you what to create; your original content is what makes your channel creative and organic. Instead, we hope to provide you with tools and tips to
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Segundo Foro Latinoamericano de Cine e Impacto Social: Memoria Gráfica
Acción Impacta Cine; Taturana; Ambulante (2023), 60 pp.
Primer Foro Latinoamericano de Cine e Impacto Social: Memorias del Evento
Acción Impacta Cine; Taturana; Ambulante (2022), 17 pp.
Strengthening Safety & Security Resources for Visual Storytellers and Journalists: A Scoping Study
[authors] (2022), 114 pp.
"This study looks into the safety and security needs, resources and environment of visual storytellers and journalists, with a focus on independent documentary filmmakers. The study was commissioned by the International Resource for Impact and Study (IRIS) and the Ford Foundation out of a concern th
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Change the Story, Change the World. Annual Report 2019-2020
Video Volunteers (2020), 61 pp.
"At Video Volunteers, we will always remember this year as the year that our network of correspondents came of age. They demonstrated their commitment not just to the work but to the organization; they proved to the world that Video Volunteers is a resilient organization, and thanks to them, we fini
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Video for Change Impact Toolkit
Key Guidance
EngageMedia; Video4Change Network (2020)
"This toolkit shows you step-by-step how to create impact projects using video. It is designed for documentary video-makers, journalists and organisations using video to engage and create change in their communities. EngageMedia has produced this toolkit in partnership with the Video4Change Network:
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Citizen Media and Practice: Currents, Connections, Challenges
London; New York: Routledge (2020), xxiv, 266 pp.
Documenting Syria: Film-Making, Video Activism and Revolution
London et al.: Tauris (2019), xiv, 321 pp.
"Since the 1970s, Syrian cinema masters played a defining role in avant-garde filmmaking and political dissent against authoritarianism. After the outbreak of violence in 2011, an estimated 500,000 video clips were uploaded making it one of the first YouTubed revolutions in history. This book is the
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Documentary Resistance: Social Change and Participatory Media
New York: Oxford University Press (2019), xiii, 280 pp.
"The potential of documentary moving images to foster democratic exchange has been percolating within media production culture for the last century, and now, with mobile cameras at our fingertips and broadcasts circulating through unpredictable social networks, the documentary impulse is coming into
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Shooting a Revolution: Visual Media and Warfare in Syria
London: Pluto Press (2018), xiv, 251 pp.
"This ethnography uses the Syrian case to reflect more broadly on how the networked age reshapes contemporary warfare and impacts on the enactment of violence through images and on images. In stark contrast to the techno-utopias celebrating digital democracy and participatory cultures, Donatella Del
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From the Sofa to the Streets: Strategies to Ignite Social Action Through Documentary Media
Los Angeles: Media Impact Project USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center (2017), 25 pp.
Connecting Communication: Using Video to Open Spaces and Mediate Exchange Between Kenyan Grass-Roots Activists
Institute of Development Studies (IDS) (2017), 21 pp.
Video for Change
In: The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change
Karin Gwinn Wilkins, Thomas Tufte, Rafael Obregón (eds.)
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2014), pp. 453-470
"This chapter argues that in order to understand contemporary forms of video activism, we need to extend our analytical scope beyond the confinements of the strategic work of social movement actors. It offers a schematic map of the various fields and disciplines in which video for social change has
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Image Politics in the Middle East: The Role of the Visual in Political Struggle
London; New York: Tauris (2013), xii, 248 pp.
"Politics in the Middle East is now ‘seen’ and the image is playing a central part in processes of political struggle. This is the first book in the literature to engage directly with these changing ways of communicating politics in the region - and particularly with the politics of the image, i
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Handbook of Participatory Video
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield (2012), xix, 480 pp.
"Participatory video is a growing area of research and an increasingly popular tool among practitioners, researchers, and NGOs working with communities around the world. The Handbook of Participatory Video advances the field, engaging critically with it as a research methodology and method and inter
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Audiovisuales de combate: Acerca del videoactivismo contemporáneo
Buenos Aires: La Crujía (2006), 176 pp.
Video for Change: A Guide for Advocacy and Activism
Peter Gabriel (foreword)
London: Pluto Press; Witness (2005), 323 pp.
"This book is an invitation—an invitation to discover the potential of a simple video camera and the power it holds to spark social change. Every day, all around the world, activists draw upon video in creative, strategic ways and use the results to ensure that silent voices are heard and importan
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The Video Activist Handbook
London: Pluto Press (1997), xvi, 248 pp.
Regarde comment tu me regardes: Techniques d’animation sociale en vidéo
Paris: Éditions Charles Léopold Mayer (1995), 126 pp.
