// 02.24.2009 at 4:46 pm // Category Case Studies // 4 Comments »
Election violence hatched in the Kenyan blogosphere
Sending SMSs or photos over the Internet is normal. However, given a political spin, hate text messages or photos can provoke ethnic violence. This is exactly what happened in Kenya. Read more…
// 02.24.2009 at 4:16 pm // Category Case Studies // 1 Comment »
Digital victory vs. digital rigging in Bangladesh
Tired of democratic uncertainties and unstable governments, the citizens of Bangladesh used the new media to great effect in the 2008 elections. How did a small instrument such as the mobile phone change the political fortune of the country? Read more…
// 02.23.2009 at 4:52 pm // Category Case Studies // Have your say »
India still votes for traditional media
This IT wonder kid of the world is reluctant to embrace the application of new technology in elections. For this reason, the Indian electorate is a tough client when it comes to buying a political argument. Why? Read more…
// 02.23.2009 at 4:24 pm // Category Case Studies // Have your say »
YouTube, the Achilles’ heel of dictatorship
When an authoritarian government in Pakistan cracked the whip on media, an increasingly online society used the media tools to crack its whip in turn. How did the common man gain access to information in the emergency situation? Read more…
// 02.23.2009 at 11:52 am // Category Case Studies // Have your say »
How the new improved the old
The entry of the Internet in Afghanistan’s political scene helped improve the traditional media landscape. Newspapers and TV are forced to put their act together, as more Afghans go online. Read more…
// 02.20.2009 at 2:59 pm // Category Case Studies // 1 Comment »
Indonesia braces itself for e-savvy elections
The old-fashioned way of meeting constituents is to conduct an election rally in a community hall or in an open field on the campaign trail. Now, politicians can just sit behind their computers or take their Blackberrys with them all the time to talk to their voters wherever they are, 24 hours a day. Read more…
// 02.20.2009 at 2:48 pm // Category Case Studies // Have your say »
The Internet leaves no footprints in Tanzania
Politicians in this East African country still cling to the old-fashioned way of doing politics, missing out on the benefits of new media. They believe internet is for young people and not for politicians, as majority of them are old. Tanzania politicians must embrace new media. Read more…
// 02.20.2009 at 2:41 pm // Category Case Studies // Have your say »
How Obama snagged young voters
Obama’s use of Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and text messages to reach out to young voters was historic. How did he manage to capture the imagination — and attention — of the youth? Read more…
// 02.20.2009 at 2:29 am // Category Case Studies // Have your say »
The image-conscious Indian ‘neta’
Elections in India are not decided solely on the strength of publicity tools, as the 2004 general elections proved, but politicians are eager not to be left out of the growing online media presence. Read more…
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