New Media in Libya
New media has drastically affected the country Libya. New media has showed the world what is really going inside of the country. Until recently the country of Libya's government has been portraying a false image of what is actually going one inside of the country. According to a BBC article "The government made it seem as though the streets of Libya were being cleaned up and they have been giving food and shelter to foreign workers. The New Daily paper in Libya that is titled Libya and is run by the citizens of the country reported on ”liberation” celebrations on how volunteers have been cleaning the streets and how they have been giving food and shelter to foreign workers. Some New Media sites such as Twitter and facebook are blocked in the country. Some citizens are still able to log into these sites through proxy sites or other methods of circulating the control mechanism for the Internet. This is actually a good thing because people inside of the country can leak information out to the rest of the public about what is actually going on inside of the country. The citizens of Libya have posted interviews, blogs, pictures, and videos about what is going on in the country.
(This is an visual image of what is going in Libya. )
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/libya/index.html (article)
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/libya/index.html (article)
I concur. New media is a very important tool in general, but more specific to the countries that do not enjoy a "free press" or democratic form of media. I actually wrote one of my essays on the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions in relation to their usage of new media. I asserted that the new media was a catalyst of those revolutionary events because it helped organize, mobilize, and generate international support. The most important concept was the correlation I found between the speediness of numerous updates in new media and the rapidness of the successful revolutions. The citizens of Tunisia and Egypt utilitzed new media to express their personal accounts of political unrest and the concerns of the masses, regardless of the governments' dominant control of the media.
ReplyDeleteIts amazing to see how New Media has affected so many different things, including the way people protest. A lot of these revolts, Egypt and Tunisia included, have been fueled by New Media. When people get together with a common goal in sight its astounding what they can do and New Media provides an outlet where they can do so. New Media has united the World in way that will hopefully better the World
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