Social media has been notorious for starting different trends or wars. From the ALS ice bucket challenge to the dress color war, people always hop on the bandwagon to be like everyone else that’s participating in the trend. Most social media trends tend to be lighthearted, fun challenges or trends; however, there are some occasional trends that tend to be more serious than others, such as Kony 2012. Kony 2012 was a film produced by Invisible Children (Nelson). The film's motivation was to advance the charity’s "Stop Kony" development to make African cult and local army pioneer, prosecuted war criminal and the International Criminal Court outlaw Joseph Kony globally known with a specific end goal to have him captured before the end of 2012,
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The Kony 2012 movie does not educate. It simplifies. The Kony 2012-inspired claims floating around twitter and Facebook like "Kony is worse than Hitler" are wrong headed (Luttrell-Rowland). Utilizing a shorthand, the movie producers shortchanged the young people. Expecting viewers to have little insight or genuine interest, the producers go light on data and examination. The poster that the Kony 2012 campaign wanted to put up around the nation, and that had been included into a $30 activity unit, compares Joseph Kony, Osama Bin Laden, and Adolf Hitler (Luttrell-Rowland). Connecting the three figures planned to make parallels all through history, and stress maliciousness as though they were precisely the same. As though recorded certainties don't make a difference. ***The world was stuck in an unfortunate situation in the event that people left data on the table and triggered so as to swing to moving youngsters to mind their feelings and giving them a guileless story and a toy.* Consumerism rather than instruction. "Purchase this" as opposed to "realize this" to impact social change. Invisible Children, the company running the Kony 2012 crusade, recommended that social change relied on making a $30 purchase on an action kit as opposed to really learning about the situation that was going on in Uganda (Luttrell-Rowland). That people could utilize consumerism and minimize training in our willingness to alarm a wide swath of individuals to foul play. In any case, truths are intense. Examination matters. Feelings and blaze would not support successful social activism. The United States needed Americans to think about violations against mankind. The most ideal approach to do this effort: ground activism in fact and acknowledge. People needed to do significantly more than to make Kony famous and to do this, people needed to be educated
The Kony 2012 movie does not educate. It simplifies. The Kony 2012-inspired claims floating around twitter and Facebook like "Kony is worse than Hitler" are wrong headed (Luttrell-Rowland). Utilizing a shorthand, the movie producers shortchanged the young people. Expecting viewers to have little insight or genuine interest, the producers go light on data and examination. The poster that the Kony 2012 campaign wanted to put up around the nation, and that had been included into a $30 activity unit, compares Joseph Kony, Osama Bin Laden, and Adolf Hitler (Luttrell-Rowland). Connecting the three figures planned to make parallels all through history, and stress maliciousness as though they were precisely the same. As though recorded certainties don't make a difference. ***The world was stuck in an unfortunate situation in the event that people left data on the table and triggered so as to swing to moving youngsters to mind their feelings and giving them a guileless story and a toy.* Consumerism rather than instruction. "Purchase this" as opposed to "realize this" to impact social change. Invisible Children, the company running the Kony 2012 crusade, recommended that social change relied on making a $30 purchase on an action kit as opposed to really learning about the situation that was going on in Uganda (Luttrell-Rowland). That people could utilize consumerism and minimize training in our willingness to alarm a wide swath of individuals to foul play. In any case, truths are intense. Examination matters. Feelings and blaze would not support successful social activism. The United States needed Americans to think about violations against mankind. The most ideal approach to do this effort: ground activism in fact and acknowledge. People needed to do significantly more than to make Kony famous and to do this, people needed to be educated