Invisible Children are explicit about its intentions as Jason Russel said, “we are making Kony world news by redefining the propaganda that we see all day every day” (Shirley, pg. 4) It is in this way that the campaign is built on controlling Kony's constructed brand image. Therefore, Invisible Children has the capacity to control the image while creating propaganda to encourage the virility of their message.
As Shirley cites,
“...images have emotional and ideological holds over people and in their acts of iconoclasm, they tacitly consent to this power, “enchanting” the images they oppose (Koerner, 2008, p. 87). The emotional response against the representation (or enchantment of the image) amplifies the images’ power...”
(Shirley, pg