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What remains a good idea: Freedom of Expression in Sri Lanka
Sanjana HattotuwaEditor, Groundviews | TED Fellow Alumn
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Post-war media “freedom”Especially for Tamil journalists
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Focus on the State & sportsGovernment led infrastructure development
& cricket scores
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Under-reported / Un-reportedThe human cost of development
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Under-reported / UN-reported / ErasedInconvenient truths
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IDPs of Seeniyamottai (September ’12), Rally against Weliveriya violence (August ’13), Aluthgama (June ’14)
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Custodial murderGanesan Nimalaruban’s mother
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State complicityIn religious extremism
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Police shootingsCovering up State brutality
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A necessary bifurcation post-warBetween patriots & traitors
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Failure of MSMSupine, seeking favour, unprofessional, dependent on advertisements, under fire, risk averse
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Pushback from State around New MediaNational Security Threats, Dogs, Terrorists, Murderers
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How can technology help?Bearing witness within cycles of violence
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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
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A safe spaceCivility, agree to disagree
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Curation
• ~7.3 million words over 50,000 comments
• ~5.8 million words over 2,900 articles • no break in eight years
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TwitterFrom peripheral to primary channel of news
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Recording human rights#unlk at 22nd HRC sessions
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FacebookReaching over 26,000 and beyond
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The end of warZero civilian casualties vs. ground realities
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Mass gravesFrom 2009 to end of 2011
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Bearing witnessImpeachment of Chief Justice
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MediatedUsing art to shape perceptions |
saskiafernandogallery.com/exhibitionsmain.php?id=22.
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30 Years AgoNew media to capture Black July anti-Tamil pogrom | www.30yearsago.asia
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Short & SweetUsing fiction to interrogate a violent past
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Citizen archivistArchiving the ephemeral for posterity | http://sitesatrisksl.wordpress.com
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• 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
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Their stories matterTech secondary