Kony 2012

Kony 2012 is a documentary Produced by the production company invisible children, inc and is written and directed by Jason Russell. After being published on youtube it went viral and has received over 100 million views.

Kony 2012 was a campaign that aimed to inform and raise awareness of issues in uganda, young children were being abducted, forced to kill and used as sex slaves by the LRA. In order to get people to take action the organisation used social media which enabled them to reach large audiences world wide, the outcome of this was very successful as many people were able to share the documentary online, however the rest of the campaign was not that successful as it seemed to disappear after 2012. Kony has still to this day not been captured and no further actions have been taken in order to try and find him, the world has forgotten and left this in the past due to the lack of consistant information given.

This was an expository documentary as it showed the world something that had not been bought to their attention before, and was able to raise great concern regarding this issue.

The documentary had hoped to get the face of Kony recognised globally so he could be arrested, however there was not much of a supportive follow up after the documentary release, therefore still to this day Kony has not been captured.