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

Fouad Bajwa fouadbajwa at gmail.com
Sun Jan 1 03:38:25 PST 2012


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/84g6hkhor
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'smurderous
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 thisdiscussion 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.


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Regards.
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Fouad Bajwa
Internet Governance Advisor
ICT4D Social Practitioner & Researcher
Member Multistakeholder Advisory Group (IGF)
Member Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus (IGC)
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