When I saw this question, at beginning I
think it’s really hard to answer, however, after watching KONY 2012, I was so
chocked and I think I got the answer.
KONY 2012 is a short film produced by
Invisible Children, Inc. (authors of Invisible Children). It was released on
March 5, 2012. The film's purpose was to promote the charity's "Stop
Kony" movement to make African cult and militia leader, indicted war
criminal and the International Criminal Court fugitive Joseph Kony globally
known in order to have him arrested by the end of 2012.(Wikipedia)
This is an amazing film also it’s an
inspired organization. At 2012, because I was in China and we don’t have
Facebook or other social media can connect to the world (how sad is thatL), I have no idea about this program until now. What amazing example
of how deep our social media, our “Facebook life” change the world! If I can
know this at two years ago, definitely I will try my best to help and I will
help to spread to the world.
It is a good program because they have such
a nice plan to motive all the people, no matter you are a student or a
politician, even Obama sign the letter to approve that America government will
help the people on Uganda.
However, Since the video's release,
Invisible Children has come under criticism for oversimplification of events in
the region( Musa,2012) and has been accused of engaging in
"slacktivism", in which one donates or takes actions that have little
to no effect beyond making one feel like one contributed(Bailyn,2012).
In my opinion, as long as this program
makes people pay attention to the invisible kids in Uganda, it is a success
revolution. A lot of organization like Invisible Kids trying to change the
world by using social media, such as Freerice.com, it is another amazing
website for donate the rice to World Food Program to help the hunger. I hope
more and more organization can make program like this and make our society
moving forward.
Reference
"Evan Bailyn: The Difference Between
Slacktivism And Activism: How 'Kony 2012' Is Narrowing The Gap".
Huffington Post. March 19, 2012. Retrieved April 22, 2012.
Free rice.com. http://freerice.com/#/english-vocabulary/1476
Kony 2012. http://invisiblechildren.com/kony-2012/
Kony 2012 Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kony_2012
Okwonga, Musa (March 7, 2012). "Stop
Kony, yes. But don’t stop asking questions". The Independent (UK).
Retrieved March 7, 2012.
