{"id":640,"date":"2014-09-08T15:37:35","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T15:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/?p=640"},"modified":"2014-09-08T17:00:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T17:00:51","slug":"filming-of-abuse-archiving-for-authenticity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/2014\/09\/08\/filming-of-abuse-archiving-for-authenticity\/","title":{"rendered":"Filming of Abuse, Archiving for Authenticity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we have seen over the last 10 years, access to portable video devices\u00a0has risen\u00a0in the US as well as the world over.\u00a0\u00a0In\u00a02014\u00a0alone, video footage of\u00a0police brutality and\u00a0homicide have\u00a0overturned arrests and brought charges to those responsible.\u00a0Often, human rights violations and atrocities are now being recorded by observers and activists who want their footage to be seen. WITNESS, a leading documentation advocacy organization, has produced a readily accessible document for how-to-film and archive footage for preservation and access.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, head archivist and co-author of the Witness video archive, Yvonne NG,\u00a0was interviewed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2014\/8\/28\/after_police_abuses_caught_on_video\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Democracy Now!<\/span><\/a>\u00a0regarding\u00a0the most recent police brutality incidents in\u00a0New York City and Ferguson, MO\u00a0being promoted on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Resources from Witness: <span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/witness.org\/resources\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">http:\/\/witness.org\/resources\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we have seen over the last 10 years, access to portable video devices\u00a0has risen\u00a0in the US as well as the world over.\u00a0\u00a0In\u00a02014\u00a0alone, video footage of\u00a0police brutality and\u00a0homicide have\u00a0overturned arrests and brought charges to those responsible.\u00a0Often, human rights violations and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/2014\/09\/08\/filming-of-abuse-archiving-for-authenticity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[24,23,65],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NL7Z-ak","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}