Social media and its Coming of Age in India.
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And its Coming Of Age in India.
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This Presentation deals with How Social Media has influenced our public life , and how it has helped in Social Mobilization especially in India. In last few years social media has been in forefront in bringing sea-changes in several worthy social causes. Its one of the most vocal of all media and the most popular amongst them too. The generally public especially the youth are taking to it like never before thanks to some great names like Zuckerberg ,Aaron Swartz etc. to name a few and its USP: Free Speech and Global Reach!
Transcript of Social media and its Coming of Age in India.
And its
Coming Of Age
in India.
Everyone Seems to
It.
What Does It Comprise ?
The list is Still Growing…
The Biggest Credit Goes To this Guy
The Man Who Revolutionized the our Online Social Experience
2012
What's the USP of the social media?
Facebook has more than 65 million active users here, putting the country among the top five worldwide in terms of users.
On this platform, free speech is unhindered. It's a virtual megaphone with a global reach, as the numbers show. Whether it's Twitter or Facebook, India is a huge presence.
Facebook and Twitter started off as friendship and networking tools. But, they have evolved into potent weapons of social mobilization.
In a way, India Against Corruption can be credited with starting it in mid-2010, during the Anna-movement.
The Anna Hazare agitation which was largely powered by Social Media Driven Youths, and the India Against Corruption FB Page(below).
The networking tool that's now a weapon
India might have tasted the power of the smartphone first in 2011 when Anna Hazare's stinging anti-corruption message rode the social media wave.
But this year saw social media creating a new phenomenon — the rise of the virtually connected Indian youth — which is likely to redraw the terms of engagement between the state and its urban population.
Social Media may have been started as a new platform for socialising but now it has become one of the basic medium of realizing our Freedom Of Speech. And any curtailing of which leads to mass protests.
Look at it any way, it is here to stay.
So, it's time for the state to learn to deal with the new power of the ordinary citizen, instead of finding means to curtail it.
For the Present lets bask in its glory..
Presented By:Anand
Presented To:The Faculty of HumanitiesRCC Institute Of Information TechnologyFor HU-481 Lab.
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