Kony 2012 - Not as simple as good guy vs bad guy

Lisa Jeary — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:13:56 GMT

"The idea that popular opinion can be leveraged with viral marketing to induce foreign military intervention is really, really dangerous."

Storified by Lisa Jeary · Thu, Mar 08 2012 05:13:56

crowdsourcing military intervention
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Thank you for reading this and doing further research about Invisible Children and Kony 2012. In response to this explosion of interest a...

I admit that I instinctively hated the Kony 2012 Campaign as soon as I watched 15 seconds of the effort's new viral video, produced by no...

You do not need to ask my permission to share this. Please link it widely. I do not doubt for a second that those involved in KONY 2012 h...

A video calling to bring a notorious Ugandan warlord to justice has gone massively viral online, but serious concerns have also been rais...

By now, you must have heard of the viral video created by Invisible Children (IC), a U.S. organization that has launched a one-year campa...

So you probably woke up this morning to discover that something called Kony 2012 had taken over the internet. In case you haven't worked ...

Invisible Children, as many readers may know, is less a film than a social movement in the US. Three young filmmakers set out to make a m...

I do not doubt for a second that those involved in KONY 2012 have great intentions, nor do I doubt for a second that Joseph Kony is a ver...

By Mark Molloy - 7th March, 2012 The campaign aims to raise awareness about international fugitive Joseph Kony (Picture: YouTube/ Invisib...

As we speak, one of the most pervasive and successful human rights based viral campaigns in recent memory is underway. Invisible Children...

Spreading the knowledge to all my fans and supporters ... Playin my part .. #Kony2012
— TwerkGod · Wed, Mar 07 2012 09:58:05

A warning to the people, the good and the evil, This Is War. #KONY2012 #stopkony
— Anna P. · Wed, Mar 07 2012 09:18:17

You may have heard of the little film titled Invisible Children that came out in 2006 documenting the Lord's Resistance Army and their ki...

I won't share the video that many of my fellow bloggers reacted to today. Because of its slick production value, Invisible Children's Kon...

By now you've probably seen the new Kony 2012 video from the Invisible Children organization (already headed towards at the 4 million mar...

Very simple: Mareike Schomerus and Tim Allen's piece in Foreign Affairs. Few have studied the LRA longer or more in depth. A runner up is...

If the world knows who Joseph Kony is, it will unite to stop him. It starts here. KONY 2012 is a film and campaign by Invisible Children ...

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