Presentation delivered to Internews Afghanistan, in Kabul on 2nd April 2015, looking at social media trends and techniques applicable in the specific geo-political context of the country.

1. social media landscapes
Sanjana Hattotuwa
Centre for Policy Alternatives
TED Fellow Alumn

2. social media what’s out there today

3. unlimited storage no limits to content creation

4. broadband faster and cheaper web access

5. tablets & smartphones the thumb generation

6. what’s new?
• Ubiquity of two way communications
• Addressable peoples, even those who IDPs or refugees
• Disintermediated models vs. traditional media model
• People as producers
• Low resolution, hyperlocal helps focus and granularity
• Aggregation of low resolution helps macro analysis and
strategy

7. what’s new?
• Democratisation of the technologies of bearing witness
• Social media as the new commons
• Acts of journalism

8. Old Media Consumer
Social Media
Consumer /
Witness /
Producer
Information as a conversation
Knowledge through curation
Information as a package
Passive
Active / Reactive

9. crowdvoice.org global social activism

10. Resilient & pervasive publication:
Facebook

11. facebook hyperlocal, provincial, national

15. memes on facebook
web based cartoons for social
and political critique

19. Humans of Kabul Seeing past stereotypes

20. Humans of Kabul Seeing past stereotypes

21. Humans of Afghanistan Facebook bearing witness

22. Resilient & pervasive publication:
IM

23. whatsapp the new sms

24. whatsapp the new sms

25. sms / texting information for the masses

26. sms / texting information for the masses

27. hyperlocal messaging for community, by community

28. Resilient & pervasive publication:
photography & trans-media

29. flickr photo collections

30. flickr promoting social work

31. flickr citizen journalism

32. flickr advocacy and activism

33. storehouse mobile visual narratives

34. instagram mobile photography

35. everydaysrilanka mobile photography

36. srilankabaton mobile photography

37. instagram community collective gaze

38. art/critique/photo serious instagramming

39. art/critique/photo serious instagramming

40. art/critique/photo serious instagramming

41. Resilient & pervasive publication:
data & art

42. mediated data, art, socio-political critique

43. Resilient & pervasive publication:
Twitter

44. twitter updates, insight, witness

45. twitter community from virtual to physical

46. govt on twitter from virtual to physical

47. news via twitter real time to real insights

48. org’s on twitter information, community and
engagement

49. Resilient & pervasive publication:
maps & mapping

50. maps mapping religious extremism

51. google maps mapping natural disasters

52. google map engine lite mapping election violence

53. crisis in darfur mapping atrocities

54. crisis in darfur mapping atrocities using
google earth

55. Resilient & pervasive publication:
video

56. collective(s) bearing witness through video

57. periscope instant mobile video

58. slacktivism engendering real change

59. beyond the virtual engage the real world

60. thank you
sanjanah@cpalanka.org