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Dima Saber

After Kony, could a viral video change the world? | World news | The Observer - 0 views

  • Viral dissemination has been a feature of the internet almost from the beginning, but the deliberate exploitation of it dates from Independence Day in the US in 1996, when Hotmail was launched by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith. It was the first "webmail" system (allowing people to send and receive email using an internet browser) and its makers had the brilliant idea of appending a footer to every message sent stating that it had been sent by Hotmail and inviting the recipient to "get a free Hotmail account" at www.hotmail.com.Viral dissemination received a really powerful boost with the launch of YouTube in 2005. Thereafter, people were able to post striking, amusing or daft videos online and the service made it easy to "share" anything that viewers liked. This is what led to the LOLcat explosion and the astonishing viewing totals for charming videos like Charlie Bit My Finger, which has been watched more than 12 million times since it first appeared in 2007.Viral dissemination was also responsible for making Bruno Ganz, the actor who played Adolf Hitler in Downfall, the 2004 film about the last days of Hitler, into the most famous German actor in the world – though in this case the makers of the film came to regard its online notoriety as a mixed blessing as parodies of one of its climactic scenes started to spread virally across the network.
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      An examination of the spread of the Kony video suggests that one weak tie in particular may have been critical in launching it to its present eminence. Her name is Oprah Winfrey and she tweeted: "Have watched the film. Had them on show last year" on 6 March, after which the graph of YouTube views of the video switches to the trajectory of a bat out of hell. Winfrey, it turns out, has 9.7 million followers on Twitter.
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    This article is pretty interesting in the sense that it gives some answers to most of the questions you all raised in the discussion topic on "Kony? What about America's war criminals" 
Dima Saber

Justin Bieber & Ryan Seacrest Try To Make The Ultimate Viral Video - 5 views

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    although the clip highlights some characteristics of viral videos, the only good thing about it is that it led me to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn9rZ5u4lLU It's a compilation of youtube's most viral videos by category.
Tarek Maamari

Kony 2012: Invisible Children's viral video sparks criticism that others say is unfound... - 0 views

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    More anti-KONY stuff
zeina ammar

Kevin Allocca: Why videos go viral - YouTube - 2 views

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    Tastemakers, Participation, Unexpectedness
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    Pretty interesting :)
Dima Saber

Why Kony 2012 Brought Out the Cyber-Skeptic in Me | The Meta-Activism Project - 3 views

  • There are rational reasons to dislike the campaign: 1) The organization that produced the film, Invisible Children, is problematic.
  • 2) The solution proposed in the video won’t work.
  • 3) The video and campaign are unintentionally racist.
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    Oh come on!! the only valid criticism from this long long list is that Invisible Children exaggerated the facts and inflated the numbers, which does undermine its legitimacy but does not ruin the campaign. The other arguments are so easy to shoot down that I won't even bother.
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