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30 May Mobil-Eyes Us app and project workflow

Mobil-Eyes Us app and project workflow By Adriano Belisário and Eric French Mobil-Eyes Us is a project of the WITNESS and the WITNESS Media Lab to explore potential new approaches to livestream storytelling for action. We look at technologies, tactics and storytelling strategies to use
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27 May Live Easter in Alemão, Rio de Janeiro

Live Easter in Alemão, Rio de Janeiro By Adriano Belisário and Eric French Mobil-Eyes Us is a project of the WITNESS and the WITNESS Media Lab to explore potential new approaches to livestream storytelling for action. We look at technologies, tactics and storytelling strategies to
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07 May Resources

Resources These are a collection of case studies showing how livestreaming and co-presence have been used to help human rights defenders (and some on how it has been exploited for harm), current features and tools that can enhance their work, and a look into how
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21 Apr Methodology

Relevant Reporting A controlled approach to content discovery is key to developing insights, sources and search techniques that allow the individual or a team to monitor a story, location or topic over time. This approach is replicable but would need to be tailored to the
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11 Apr Case Study Conclusions

CASE STUDY CONCLUSIONS Storyful was able to build a successful content-discovery methodology. We wanted to source, verify, and archive key content emerging via eyewitnesses  and IS-associated propagandists. We wanted to do this to allow our news partners to tell a coherent story. The purpose of
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11 Apr Ethical use of perpetrator content

ETHICAL USE OF PERPETRATOR CONTENT This case study was concerned with applying Storyful’s discovery and verification methodology to a long-term issue or category of content – in this case, content emerging from occupied Mosul. This content was divided into three distinct categories for the purposes
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11 Apr Archiving content and associated metadata

ARCHIVING CONTENT AND ASSOCIATED METADATA Storyful used open source information to source and verify content from inside occupied Mosul and throughout the government operation to retake the city. We verified the source, date and location of a number of videos, as set out in the
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