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December 21, 2023
Amnesty prize to go for Indigenous social media push
Waatea Team
Posted On December 21, 2023
Download AudioThe winner of this year’s Amnesty International Gary Ware Legacy Award for youth activists says he wants to use social media to inform rangatahi about indigenous rights.
Te Matahiapo Safari Hynes is a law and te reo Māori conjoint graduate from Victoria University.
He says social media is the primary form of communication for his generation, which is why he will use his $4500 prize to create online resources including Instagram reels and TikTok videos.
“Those are the particular forms that are being prioritised by the algorithms of social media apps and are what people are really tuning into. So it just makes sense to make educational videos in the same form, and put them out to people and hope people pay the one and a half minutes, two minutes of attention that it will take to learn something new,” Mr Hynes says.
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