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media type="custom" key="7844855" Gordon Brown: Wiring a web for global good (TED)

In this video there is a lot of social media for social justice involved. With just pictures of issues happening around the world, you can notify people about problems happening close to them or in other countries. An Eithiopian girl, who was rescued 15 minutes away from her time of death, launched Live Aids in the 1980's. The picture taken of her when she was rescued was viewed all around the world and millions of people viewed it. In Tiananmen Square, a man stood in front of a tank and the picture that was taken millions of people view today. This picture of the man became a symbol of resistance to people all around the world.

I chose this video because it seemed the most interesting. When I first starting watching the video, I saw the phototograph of the man standing before the tank. I had seen that picture before in my Global History class so I had already known its main theme had to do with resistance. Since I knew a little about one of the issues I wanted to see the other issues also involve so I just decided to continue watching the rest of the video. Some of the pictures were kind of disturbing and I didn't understand how these issues started.