What remains a good idea: Freedom of Expression in Sri Lanka
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What remains a good idea: Freedom of Expression in Sri Lanka
Sanjana HattotuwaEditor, Groundviews | TED Fellow Alumn
Post-war media “freedom”Especially for Tamil journalists
Focus on the State & sportsGovernment led infrastructure development
& cricket scores
Under-reported / Un-reportedThe human cost of development
Under-reported / UN-reported / ErasedInconvenient truths
IDPs of Seeniyamottai (September ’12), Rally against Weliveriya violence (August ’13), Aluthgama (June ’14)
Custodial murderGanesan Nimalaruban’s mother
State complicityIn religious extremism
Police shootingsCovering up State brutality
A necessary bifurcation post-warBetween patriots & traitors
Failure of MSMSupine, seeking favour, unprofessional, dependent on advertisements, under fire, risk averse
Pushback from State around New MediaNational Security Threats, Dogs, Terrorists, Murderers
How can technology help?Bearing witness within cycles of violence
Recording for posterityWordpress, Blogger,
Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube,
Vimeo, Bundlr, Storify, Vimeo,
SoundCloud, Flickr, Infogr.am, Typeform, Google Maps, Google
Earth, Timeline.js, Tiki Toki, Ushahidi
CrowdMap, OpenStreetMap, SMS, Mobile Apps, HTML5
A safe spaceCivility, agree to disagree
Curation
• ~7.3 million words over 50,000 comments
• ~5.8 million words over 2,900 articles • no break in eight years
TwitterFrom peripheral to primary channel of news
Recording human rights#unlk at 22nd HRC sessions
FacebookReaching over 26,000 and beyond
The end of warZero civilian casualties vs. ground realities
Mass gravesFrom 2009 to end of 2011
Bearing witnessImpeachment of Chief Justice
MediatedUsing art to shape perceptions |
saskiafernandogallery.com/exhibitionsmain.php?id=22.
30 Years AgoNew media to capture Black July anti-Tamil pogrom | www.30yearsago.asia
Short & SweetUsing fiction to interrogate a violent past
Citizen archivistArchiving the ephemeral for posterity | http://sitesatrisksl.wordpress.com
• Army (1)
• Berghof Foundation (2)
• CaFFE – Election Monitoring (1)
• Citizens Commission (1)
• Citizens.lk (1)
• COI (1)
• Colombo Art Biennale 2014 (1)
• Colomboscope (1)
• Cost of War (1)
• CPA (1)
• Dept. of Census and Statistics (1)
• Development (1)
• Eastern Revival (1)
• FMM (1)
• Groundviews (1)
• IIGEP (2)
• InfoShare (1)
• Jayantha Dhanapala (1)
• JVP (1)
• LLRC Action Plan (1)
• LLRC NAP (1)
• LTTE Dept. of IR (1)
• LTTE Peace Secretariat (2)
• MCNS (1)
• Media at risk (1)
• Milinda Moragoda (1)
• National Freedom Front (1)
• National Housing Policy (1)
• NESOHR (1)
• Official Languages Commission (1)
• PACT (1)
• Political parties (2)
• Regaining Sri Lanka (1)
• SCOPP (3)
• SLPI & SLCJ (1)
• Sri Lanka Democracy Forum (SLDF) (1)
• Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (1)
• Tamil National Alliance (1)
• Tsunami (1)
• UNF-LTTE Peace Process (1)
• Vikalpa (1)
• Blogs of Army commanders during 2009
Their stories matterTech secondary
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