[governance] Politics and Social Media in Pakistan - The struggle for new power within an immature democracy!

[Naveed haq]

+1

Rightly pointed out by Fouad, social media has started to play its role in the politics of the country. Political parties have geared up to run massive campaigns over social media. In fact, the youth in particular has joined in broadcasting the change vibe through their status updates with loads of images and videos related with political stage. Social media over Internet is going to be a strong source for changing / setting the political and governance table in the country. 


Best Regards,

Naveed-ul-Haq 



> Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 16:39:21 +0500
> From: fouadbajwa at gmail.com
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Subject: [governance] Politics and Social Media in Pakistan - The struggle for new power within an immature democracy!
> 
> Starting the new year with a view on politics and social media in Pakistan:
> 
> Politics and Social Media in Pakistan - The struggle for new power
> within an immature democracy!
> Source: http://tinyurl.com/84g6hkh
> or direct link:
> http://internetsgovernance.blogspot.com/2012/01/politics-and-social-media-in-pakistan.html
> 
> Excerpt:
> "With the massive terror attacks and daily target and political
> killings carnage across the nation, the never ending NRO case
> hearings, political unrest with fading accountability, death of Osama
> Bin Laden, the chaotic mishandling of Raymond Davis case, the
> political Memo Gate scandal, the crisis after NATO and ISAF's
> murderous attack on the Pakistani military border checkpoints, the
> protesting crushed citizenry against the unavailability of
> electricity, natural gas, rising prices of daily commodities with
> increasing inflation, the highest rates of joblessness in the world,
> no law or legal protection even at the basic level, with constant
> human rights violations midst constant media threats of martial law
> over an immature democracy, the country remains struggling to withhold
> its weight and avoid a total collapsing failure.
> 
> Cooking pot for an Epic political drama of the century!
> Despite all this chaos and pitfalls of democracy in Pakistan, the
> political stage is getting ready for the best election drama of the
> new millennium, a moment in history that everyone across the world
> will be interested in following. What will be the future of Pakistan
> and its governance? Hardcore dirty politics is not the focus of this
> discussion but more on how the political parties and key political
> actors have taken to the Internet, World Wide Web and Social Media to
> heat up the political battle ground for upcoming elections.
> 
> --
> Regards.
> --------------------------
> Fouad Bajwa
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