My slides for a panel on Hashtag Activism and Social Media, for the United Nations International Media Seminar on Peace in the Middle East (Ankara, 11-12 September 2019).
5. Benefits
• Focal point for conversation
• User generated (not by platforms)
• Translation to other languages
• Generate momentum
6. #IceBucketChallenge
ALS Association :
1. $41.8 million given by 739,000 new donors between
July 29 and August 21 2014
2. More than double the donations to the charity for
the whole of 2012.
• 17 million videos
• 440 million views
• %115 million raised
In 2016 ALS announced major
scientific breakthrough – research
funded by the challenge
7.
8. • #MeToo hashtag used
more than 19 million
times on Twitter in first
year
15 Oct 17- 30 Sept 2018 (Pew)
• Average 55,319 uses of
hashtag per day.
• 29% not in English
• Spike around related
news stories
e.g. Time magazine named #MeToo activists
as persons of the year
9. #MeToo Brought Down 201
Powerful Men. Nearly Half of
Their Replacements Are Women.
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Andrew Kimmel
@andrewkimmel
I produce things for tv & the web. Founder of AuraNexus. Former Head of Live Video @BuzzFeedNews
+ Former Producer of @BachelorABC
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@KumarRaoNYC
Lawyer, former public defender. Human rights, attorneys of color, progressive politics, racial justice. #GoBlue @PopDemoc
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Andrew Kimmel
@andrewkimmel
I produce things for tv & the web. Founder of AuraNexus. Former Head of Live Video @BuzzFeedNews
+ Former Producer of @BachelorABC
andrew.kimmel@gmail.com
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D_uOMJ0XUAA_GBJ.png
https://twitter.com/KumarRaoNYC/status/1102788004526112768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fd-4134756303583755352.ampproject.net%2F1909051800160%2Fframe.html Kumar Rao
@KumarRaoNYC
Lawyer, former public defender. Human rights, attorneys of color, progressive politics, racial justice. #GoBlue @PopDemoc
@LocalProgress
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