Christoph Koettl – Senior Analyst at Amnesty International – will launch his new report, ‘Citizen Media Research and Verification: An Analytical Framework for Human Rights Practitioners,’ at this event co-hosted by the Researching (with) Social Media group and the Centre of Governance and Human Rights. This report examines the role of open source research in human rights fact-finding and addresses a gap in the current literature – which lacks a human rights perspective, is dominated by journalistic approaches, or focuses on specific tools. The report focuses on citizen media, the visual subset of open source information, and provides a practitioner’s perspective that is based on several years of analysing open source materials for a global human rights group. It includes case studies on video and image verification and identifies best and worst practices.