Chapter 11Mojo, Social Networks and Social Media

Stephen Quinn

Summary

The amount of video uploaded to YouTube soared from eight hours a minute in 2008 to more than 100 hours by early 2015. Yet many of those videos are poor quality or simply pointless. Mojo offers a chance for citizens and media organizations to create high-quality videos that can be put on their social media or social networking platforms of choice. Social media and social networks are thus natural fits with mojo. You can also use these tools to promote your work.

As the manuscript for this book was being finalized the world was absorbed with news that a third person had been beheaded by an Islamic State in Syria (ISIS) fighter. On September 13, 2014 video of the execution of ...

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